Michel Foucault

"Knowledge is a matter of power relations."

"To know who I am is a form of constraint."

"Every relationship of force implies a relation of power, and every power relation has a correlative field of knowledge."

"The only thing I am is not a writer but an event."

"Systems of thought are not given in things themselves."

"Thought is freedom in relation to what one does."

"I would say that I am a theoretician, but a theoretician who never stops moving."

"Culture does not make people. People make culture."

"The father's name stands for the law."

"Reality is not what gives rise to ideology; rather, ideology gives rise to reality."

"One has to still have chaos in oneself."

"Who invented the idea of original sin?"

"Power operates through bodies, not above them."

"There is no such thing as a natural psychology."

"We think we are free when in reality we are always constrained."

"Language precedes life."

"The present is the moment we cannot think."

"Discourse is the power which is to be seized."

"I believe in the wisdom of things."

"The future will belong to those who can imagine it."

"All interpretation is interest-based."

"My role is to show people that a lot of things that seem natural to them are actually not natural."

"The body is our general surface of inscription for events."

"History teaches us to resist the tyranny of the present."

"There is an order to things which I do not fully understand."

"Knowledge accumulated is power delegated."

"One must still have chaos in one's soul to give birth to a dancing star."

"The chief function of every belief is to calm the mind."

"Freedom comes from understanding what imprisons us."

"Every individual acts as an event in the history of knowledge."