Michel Foucault Quotes
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
Foucault, Michel. "On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress." The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, Pantheon Books, 1984, p. 343.
In early America, the political parties had their own newspapers where “truth” was not an important journalistic virtue. Red scares and other fears of foreign conspiracies are as old as our nation. In 1798 the Federalists accused Vice President Thomas Jefferson, among others, of being in contact with the foreign conspirators and printed details of a "manufactured" plot to massacre the citizens of Philadelphia in one of their controlled newspapers. The nation was so alarmed that the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress a few months later. These were probably the greatest infringements on American civil liberties in our history.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
