...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

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

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

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.