In Writing, The Point Is

It Might Be Said That All Knowledge Is Linked To The Essential Forms Of Cruelty.

'truth' Is To Be Understood As A System Of Ordered Procedures For The Production, Regulation, Distribution, Circulation And Operation Of Statements. 'truth' Is Linked In A Circular Relation With Systems Of Power Which Produce And Sustain It, And To Effects Of Power Which It Induces And Which Extend It. A 'regime' Of Truth.

There Is A Sort Of Myth Of History That Philosophers Have.... History For Philosophers Is Some Sort Of Great, Vast Continuity In Which The Freedom Of Individuals And Economic Or Social Determinations Come And Get Entangled. When Someone Lays A Finger On One Of Those Great Themes--continuity, The Effective Exercise Of Human Liberty, How Individual Liberty Is Articulated With Social Determinations--when Someone Touches One Of These Three Myths, These Good People Start Crying Out That History Is Being Raped Or Murdered.

People Know What They Do; Frequently They Know Why They Do What They Do; But What They Don't Know Is What What They Do Does.

Do Not Ask Who I Am And Do Not Ask Me To Remain The Same: Leave It To Our Bureaucrats And Our Police To See That Our Papers Are In Order. At Least Spare Us Their Morality When We Write.