The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

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

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

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

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.