Michel Foucault Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
-
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
-
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
-
I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
-
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
-
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
-
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.
-
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
-
I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
-
I am about safety for the people and the planet.
-
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
-
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
-
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-
I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
-
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
-
The sad Don Quixote of a worthless purpose.
-
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
-
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy without experiment is merely mathematical exercise, while experiment without mathematics will neither sufficiently discipline the mind or sufficiently extend our knowledge in a subject like physics.
-
I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
-
Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.
-
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
