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

Where there is power, there is resistance.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.