Michel Foucault

"Madness is the condition of possibility of psychiatric knowledge"

"The eye of power does not see without modifying"

"All knowledge is rooted in a fundamental human commitment"

"I have always been very interested in what could be called virtual communities"

"The history of sexuality is the history of control"

"To be part of the governed population means to be seen constantly"

"Thought is freedom in relation to what one does"

"The resistance of the patient is not an obstacle to analysis but its very condition"

"I am aware of the disloyalty of the intellectual who speaks"

"What is success? One man's success might be another man's failure"

"The world is made up of differences"

"There is no innocence, there is only degrees of guilt"

"Time is the dimension of change"

"To make history is to constantly shift the boundaries of the possible"

"Architecture is not simply about material"

"Art is made by ordinary people to be seen and used by ordinary people"

"The true nature of power is to act"

"Language precedes us"

"Beware of those who would interpret the Constitution not according to its words, but according to their wishes"

"The human is not born; he is made"

"To change the political society one must first change the consciousness of man"

"Death is not the opposite of life but of absence of life"

"The modern individual is the result of the exercise of power"

"Reality is perceived through the filter of our symbols and narratives"

"Ethical behavior is a practice, not a belief system"

"The body is a political entity"

"One cannot reinvent oneself endlessly because one is constrained by historical conditions"

"To speak is not to see"

"The archive is what defines the very threshold of what can be said"

"Reason did not exist before the eighteenth century"