Philosophy Quotes

"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"

"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"

"The intellectual must think against himself"

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

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

"The genealogy of things matters more than their essence"

"Existence precedes any fixed nature"

"The relations of production of every society form a system."

"Economic conditions form the basis of society."

"The purpose of philosophy is to change the world."

"Ideas have consequences when they guide action."

"God is dead, and the state has taken his place."

"In a word, we must say that evil is necessary; it has its raison d'être."

"The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice."

"Morality is a human creation, not handed down by deity or state."

"Every person contains the potential for both creation and destruction."

"I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal."

"Morality and laws are two totally different things."

"Civilization is built on repression; that is why it is so fragile."

"The struggle for existence is not the struggle between classes but within them."

"Philosophy without action is merely intellectual exercise."

"Philosophy must emerge from lived experience or it is mere abstraction."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

"The consciousness of men does not determine their being; on the contrary, their social being determines their consciousness."

"The German ideology consists precisely in thinking that big industry will be ushered in by means of philosophy."