Michel Foucault Quotes

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

Michel Foucault

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• Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Author
  • Nobody

• Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • More
  • Paganism
  • Infectious

• American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Women
  • American
  • Discipline

• Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • History
  • Together
  • Legends

• The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • Monster
  • Justification

• We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Guy
  • Exposed

• Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Life
  • Child
  • Mask

• Perhaps there were a few million dollars that might have been stolen in the process. But how many millions of dollars have we saved because we have re-established the stability of Canada by keeping it a united country?

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Process
  • Million
  • Stolen

• The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Conduct
  • Arguments
  • Interfere

• When we ask God to 'bring an end to our enemies,' we should be thinking about Iran, those evil ones who threaten Israel.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • God
  • Enemies
  • Bring

• The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Christianity
  • Compromise
  • Doctrine

• There is no secret here when he stood in the Roosevelt Room and said 'I never had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky,' ... He knew when he said that ... that he was misleading the people who were listening to him.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • People
  • Listening
  • Relations

• I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

  

  Max Roach
  • Roles
  • Figures
  • Drummer

• The future belongs to those who innovate.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Future
  • Innovate

• A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

  

  Michel Foucault
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  • Relations
  • Way Of Life