The soul is the prison of the body.

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

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

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

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before

People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.