Michel Foucault Quotes

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Even silence speaks.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

It isn’t what you say that counts, it’s what you don’t say

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

When I say nothing, I say everything

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify