Michel Foucault Quotes

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

I felt free and therefore I was free.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

Being free is a state of mind.

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.