"Sometimes, because my position has not been made clear enough, people think I'm a sort of radical anarchist who has a…"

"Quand j’étudie les mécanismes de pouvoir, j’essaie d’étudier leur spécificité… Je n’admets ni la notion de maîtrise n…"

"Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our …"

"[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It a…"

"[L]'âme, prison du corps."

"Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought as a fish exists in water; that is, it ceases to breathe anywhere else."

"Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?"

"The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to a…"

"We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by …"

"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 …"