Michel Foucault
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"I am interested in the past only insofar as it is active in the present."
Michel Foucault
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"We think that freedom is a right, but it is more than this—it is our very existence."
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"The 'truth' is always about power relations."
Michel Foucault
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"Confession is a ritual of discourse."
Michel Foucault
"If there is no possibility of resistance, there would be no power relations."
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"Knowledge is power."
Michel Foucault
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"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do."
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"All theory is created by and is useful for human beings."
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"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles."
Michel Foucault
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
Michel Foucault