Best quotes by Michel Foucault on Society

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• ‟ Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

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• ‟ Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

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• ‟ What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

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• ‟ We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

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• ‟ Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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