Michel Foucault Quotes

There is no glory in punishing.

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• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Serious
  • Thought
  • Process

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • History
  • Justice

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Women
  • Love
  • Revolution

• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • Expectations

• What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Why
  • Growing

• I love talking about the challenges [Newark, NJ] has because of the way they are always brilliantly disguised as opportunities.. .the biggest global challenge that there is is a challenge of the spirit, a challenge of our vision, a challenge and a test of our ideals, of who we SAY we are GOING TO BE.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Challenge
  • Vision
  • Spirit

• I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Future
  • Vision

• I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Best

• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  

  Jim Horning
  • Learning
  • Discipline
  • Building

• The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

  

  Max Lerner
  • People
  • Effort
  • Able

• We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God's house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns!

  

  Eddie Long
  • House
  • Mean
  • Church

• Tension, especially with regard to horror, is a very difficult thing to sustain in the big sense.

  

  Bear McCreary
  • Horror
  • Regard
  • Tension

• We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • World
  • Children
  • Death

• We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Judgement
  • Armenians

• I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Music
  • Way
  • Timeless

• There is no glory in punishing.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Glory
  • Punishing