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

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

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

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.