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Quote by Michel Foucault
Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a c

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. – Michel Foucault

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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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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. Its not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness. – Michel Foucault

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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

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Thank you power is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them – so youve got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past. – Deborah Norville

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. – Friedrich Schiller

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Power is the ability to get things done. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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