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Michel Foucault Quotes about Power

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Where there is power, there is resistance.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Michel Foucault
Power, Resistance, Pizza
Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.382, MIT Press

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
Strength, Power, Names
Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.93, Vintage

Power is everywhere...because it comes from everywhere.

Michel Foucault
Power
"Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

Michel Foucault
Exercise, Power, Groups
Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.34, MIT Press

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
Birthday, Power, Age
Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

Michel Foucault
Character, Exercise, Power
Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.35, MIT Press

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.

Michel Foucault
Power, Desire, Trying
"The History of Sexuality". Book by Michel Foucault, p. 97, 1984.

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