The âEnlightenmentâ, which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.Michel Foucault
Where there is power, there is resistance.Michel Foucault
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power.Michel Foucault
The âcriminal' we must fear today is no longer the delinquent, but the good, docile, obedient citizen.Michel Foucault
The prison is like a rather disciplined barracks, a strict school, a dark workshop, but not radically different.Michel Foucault
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.Michel Foucault
The success of disciplinary power derives no doubt from the use of simple instruments; hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment and their combination in a procedure that is specific to it, the examination.Michel Foucault
The examination is the technique by which power, instead of emitting the signs of its potency, instead of imposing its mark on its subjects, holds them in a mechanism of objectification.Michel Foucault
Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility.Michel Foucault
It is the fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection.Michel Foucault
The judges of normality are present everywhere.Michel Foucault
The history of efficient practices, of the âartsâ of governing and of the calculated administration of life is the history of the extension and intensification of bodily controls, which operate at every level of the social body.Michel Foucault