Michel Foucault Quotes

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

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• I like going after good material, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Good
  • Like
  • Going

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Family
  • Community
  • Question

• It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Attitude
  • Two
  • Editing

• The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Innovation
  • Living

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Character
  • Guy

• Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Inspired

• By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life
  • Way
  • Own

• What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Book
  • Change

• The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Friends
  • Science
  • Party

• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Novels
  • Relaxation
  • Severe

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Die

• No one should die when they're 50.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Should
  • Dies

• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Temptation

• This is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Books
  • Silent

• Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Childhood
  • Interest
  • Hors

• Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Discover
  • Refuse
  • Target