Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.