Michel Foucault

"We are not born into freedom; freedom must be continuously struggled for and recreated."

"The boundary between the normal and the abnormal is not natural but politically drawn."

"To live ethically is to live with awareness of how our lives are entangled with others."

"Death reminds us that we are finite beings; this finitude is what gives meaning to our lives."

"The act of writing is always a political act, whether we intend it to be or not."

"We must learn to live not despite our limitations but through them and with them."

"Man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge."

"The soul is the prison of the body."

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."

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

"Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere."

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

"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."

"There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge."

"Truth is a thing of this world."

"Madness is to absolute reason as blackness is to absolute light."

"The task of philosophy is to describe the actual working of power relations."

"We are ourselves our own tombs."

"Silence is something entirely different from absence of speech."

"I dream of a new age of curiosity."

"Sexuality is not a given; it is a historical construct."

"The man described and analyzed with all the 'human' sciences is an effect of power."

"Freedom is not something that is given to us but something we must conquer."

"Nothing can exist without showing itself."

"Discipline must be understood as a political anatomy of detail."

"Language is not life; it gives life orders."

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

"The more one possesses oneself, the more one possesses the world."

"Confession is a ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement."

"We must still have chaos within ourselves to give birth to a dancing star."