Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

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.

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?

Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

The unexpected will occur, but in the end, your life will never seize to become what you continuously make of it.

Women are binding and men are commanding.

It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

I have always been into music ever since I was a kid.