Michel Foucault Quotes

In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

Michel Foucault

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• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • World
  • Adventure

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Law
  • Government

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Hope
  • Education
  • Perfection

• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Men
  • Sound Sense

• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  

  William Powell
  • Fool
  • Dumb
  • Democrat

• The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

  

  Gary Player
  • Live
  • Better
  • Vegetarian

• I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Heaven
  • Knows
  • Tears

• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Choices
  • Learn
  • Color

• I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Head
  • Voices
  • Contain

• People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Band
  • Realize

• The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view".

  

  Dafydd Williams
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Moments

• When we got started, my colleague, Brad Williamson, said that we ought to get schools involved. I was skeptical that school kids could contribute, but we designed something that teachers could use to help students contribute data.

  

  Chip Taylor
  • Involved
  • Teachers
  • Schools

• People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

  

  Bernie Glassman
  • Afraid
  • Move
  • Function

• In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Function
  • Punish
  • Educating