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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."
Michel Foucault
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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."
Michel Foucault
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"Knowledge is power."
Michel Foucault
Attributed
"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do."
Michel Foucault
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"All theory is created by and is useful for human beings."
Michel Foucault
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"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles."
Michel Foucault
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
Michel Foucault
"Covenants, without the sword, are but words."
Thomas Hobbes
"Knowledge is power."
Thomas Hobbes
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"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Thomas Hobbes
"Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions."
Thomas Hobbes
"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason."
Thomas Hobbes
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them."
Thomas Hobbes
"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
Thomas Hobbes
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"In the state of nature there is no injustice."
Thomas Hobbes
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed."
Thomas Hobbes
"Science is the knowledge of consequences."
Thomas Hobbes