Foucault Surveillance Quotes

#1. There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

Edward Tufte

#2. I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

Cecil Jacobson

#3. Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Michel Foucault

#4. One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way.

Tim Armstrong

#5. using large amounts of artificial sweeteners may lead to adverse health side effects.

Peggy Annear

#6. You might be a redneck if the Home Shopping Channel operator recognizes your voice.

Jeff Foxworthy

#7. For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,

Sarah Beeny

#8. Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action.

Michel Foucault

#9. While they rightly question every aspect of their "own" Western culture in the name of progress, they censure liberal Muslims who attempt to do so within Islam, and they choose to side instead with every regressive reactionary in the name of "cultural authenticity" and anticolonialism.

Sam Harris

#10. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.

Diana Gabaldon

#11. There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze that each individual under its weight will end by [internalising] to the point that they are their own overseer, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against themself.

Michel Foucault

#12. And the black box in her arms whimpered itself to sleep with longing to be a normal person who is chosen, not a special person who is discovered. To be the kind of duck who gets included by wild swans

Nell Zink

#13. What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

Carlos Mencia