Quote by Michel Foucault
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and desp

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. – Michel Foucault

Other quotes by Michel Foucault

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. – Michel Foucault

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Madness
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. – Michel Foucault

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Age
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I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. – John Stuart Mill

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Freedom

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you dont have any freedom left, or youre going to build a world that doesnt create terrorists – and that means a whole different way of getting along. – John Shelby Spong

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Freedom

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. – E. M. Forster

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Freedom

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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?… Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. – Alfred Whitney Griswold

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The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together. – Léon Blum (1872–1950), Problems of Peace, 1931

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Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. – John Malkovich

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It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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