Michel Foucault Quotes

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Michel Foucault

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Up
  • Law
  • Stop

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Anxiety

• I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Man
  • Rather
  • Denmark

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday
  • Regrets

• Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Happiness

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Voice
  • Musical
  • Decent

• It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People
  • Life

• My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • House
  • Mom
  • Matter

• Obviously, the death of Usama Bin Laden marked a strategic milestone in our effort to defeat al-Qa'ida. Unfortunately, Bin Laden's death, and the death and capture of many other al-Qa'ida leaders and operatives, does not mark the end of that terrorist organization or its efforts to attack the United States and other countries.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Death
  • Effort
  • Organization

• You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Reason
  • United States
  • Size

• I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Listening

• The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Practice
  • Pleasure
  • Creation