The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

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."

Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.