The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
----History of Sexuality Vol. I, p. 59
Power is everywhere: not that it engulfs everything, but that it comes from everywhere.
----History of Sexuality Vol. I, p. 121-122
A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
---- Discipline and Punish
What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.
----Truth, Power, Self : An Interview with Michel Foucault (25 October 1982)
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