I believe that political power exercises itself through the mediation of a certain number of institutions which look as if they have nothing in common with the political power, and as if they are independent of it, while they are not.

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

What I seek is a permanent opening of possibilities.

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

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."

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