Quote by Foucault, Michel

"The purpose of my work has always been to plumb the depths of liberty and to understand how we arrived at a point where freedom itself seems to be a kind of imprisonment."

Foucault, Michel Freedom
Philosopher-Historian French 1926–1984

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