Michel Foucault Quotes

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

Michel Foucault

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• Medicine
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• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Writing
  • True
  • Break

• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
  • Control
  • Paranoid

• I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Twitter

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Trying
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Smile

• It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Painting

• Rules for Axioms. I. Not to omit any necessary principle without asking whether it is admittied, however clear and evident it may be. II. Not to demand, in axioms, any but things that are perfectly evident in themselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World

• Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Writing
  • Free
  • Poet

• Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Knowledge
  • Care
  • Medicine