15 quotes
French philosopher (1926–1984)
“But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.”
"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."
on Activism
"Government is the right disposition of things."
on Government
"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
on Education
"Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions."
on Justice
"Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know."
on Nature
"Where there is power, there is resistance."
on Power
"Visibility is a trap."
on Philosophy
"I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence."
on Writing
"From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure"
on Economy
"What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?"
"The game is worthwhile in so far as we don't know what will be the end."
"Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting."
on Wisdom
"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
on Freedom
"everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent"
on Ethics
