Michel Foucault Quotes

My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

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• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  

  Mae West
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • Curves

• As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Never

• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Knowledge
  • Respect
  • Practice

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Man
  • Me

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Going
  • Colour
  • Inequality

• The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Fight
  • Down
  • Ghosts

• I graduated from the University of Whatever.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • University
  • Graduation

• I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Working
  • Leg

• Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Different
  • Quality

• I think for marketplace businesses, and when you think about online dating, it's not a social network. It's not a place where you go to talk to people you already know; it's a place you go to interact with someone you've never met before.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Think
  • Dating

• I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Career

• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Country
  • History
  • Effort

• Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Regret
  • Role
  • Asked

• Most Canadians, if they don't show up for work, they don't get a promotion. … You missed 70 per cent of the votes.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Up
  • Work

• We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Fire

• My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • History
  • Role
  • Evidence