Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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.

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

The closer you get to what's happening in TV now and the ways it's evolving, the more danger you get into.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.