Foucault, Michel

"Knowledge is power."

"Man is neither good nor evil, he is born neutral."

"I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face."

"Power is everywhere and comes from everywhere."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Silence itself, the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers - is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things one says."

"Truth is a thing of this world."

"One cannot always write about what one wishes to write about."

"I would say that if you have really got the taste of freedom in your mouth, you can't bear to spit it out, even to give yourself a good life."

"Where there is power, there is resistance."

"The more one possesses the more one is possessed."

"People are dying and they don't even know it."

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of a new world."

"Liberty is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"History is that which turns human beings into subjects."

"Do not demand of politics that it restore what you call your true self; for your true self is only a creation of politics."

"Everything is dangerous which is why everything is important."

"The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body."

"Thought is freedom."

"It is not that life is a tragedy, but that existence is a comedy in which we are forced to play our parts."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"Every relationship is a power relationship."

"The modern individual is a self that is constructed through discourse and social practice."

"One must still have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"Discipline is a political tactic of control."

"The purpose of my work has always been to plumb the depths of liberty and to understand how we arrived at a point where freedom itself seems to be a kind of imprisonment."

"Perhaps we should stop talking about the nature of human sexuality and start asking what humans have made of sexuality."

"It is an honor to be placed in the company of those great ones of history."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he possesses the means of understanding."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."