Michel Foucault

"Knowledge is power"

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will"

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

"Truth is a thing of this world"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a complete negation of yours"

"Language is not what I am"

"We must not exclude the risk of a totalitarianism produced by the alliance of certain scientific and technological developments"

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same"

"Power is everywhere and comes from everywhere"

"Sexuality is something that has been deeply buried in our culture"

"There is no such thing as repression, only discursive production"

"The man described in history books is not the man in the street"

"Discipline is not punishment"

"We think that freedom is in addition to ourselves, but freedom is within us"

"Language is the infinite interpretability of the world"

"Visibility is a trap"

"The more one rids oneself of thoughts, the more the spirit becomes clear"

"Madness is the absence of work"

"Criticism is not a matter of saying that things are not good the way they are"

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

"I would say that I am a happy man"

"Knowledge never remains sealed. It spreads and disseminates"

"Society must be defended against the dangers it represents for itself"

"The birth of the prison coincides with the birth of modern society"

"What is philosophy if not a way to love?"

"The more we emphasize our race, our borders, our ethnic differences, the more we are likely to end up in catastrophe"

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world, for indeed, that's all who ever have"

"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person"

"I prefer the word structure to the word form because form has too many associations with the physical"

"The essential thing is not to be cured but to live with one's ailments"