One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.
Michel FoucaultWhat strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Michel FoucaultIf I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.
Michel FoucaultThe real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.
Michel Foucault