In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.

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

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

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.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

When you do things for others; don't expect your good deeds to be returned. Do it because you enjoy making someone's day.