Michel Foucault

"Being is difference"

"I think one's identity is constantly changing based on how people relate to you and the perceptions of you"

"The future will belong to those who can tolerate ambiguity"

"Culture is not something one reads, it is something one does"

"Innovation requires the destruction of the old"

"The subject is constituted through discourse"

"One does not inhabit a territory, one inhabits language"

"History is not progress towards enlightenment but a series of ruptures"

"What is called progress is often the slow replacement of one form of domination by another"

"The psychiatric asylum is a space of segregation and purification"

"Language is the condition of knowledge"

"Power operates through the production of truth, not through violence alone"

"The future is not predetermined but open"

"We are bodies before we are minds"

"Discipline creates docile bodies"

"Sexuality is created, not discovered"

"One must not assume that being in the world is a given"

"The self is not a fixed entity but a process"

"History is a series of presents interpreting the past"

"Freedom cannot be purchased; it must be practiced"

"The intellectual must think against himself"

"To be human is to be subject to power relations"

"Knowledge is not neutral but produced within power relations"

"Society is not a contract but a grid of relations"

"The archive is not a neutral collection but a structured system of what can be said"

"To resist is to propose new ways of being human"

"We are our own possibilities realized"

"The genealogy of things matters more than their essence"

"Modernity is not a historical period but an attitude towards the present"

"Each society has its own truth regime"