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there is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.


Michel Foucault

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MICHEL FABER I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Bro...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director....
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications an...
MICHEL SABBAH A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.
MICHEL SABBAH Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.
MICHEL SABBAH The Palestinian people should regain their liberty and land with a state and a capital and the Israe...
MICHEL SABBAH This wall must not exist. One day it will not exist.
MICHEL SABBAH This position and the confiscation of lands have no reason at all. (The wall) doesn't benefit the se...
MICHEL SABBAH The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl...
MICHEL SABBAH God has brought together Jews, Christians and Muslims to this holy land. No human power can change i...
MICHEL SABBAH Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,
MICHEL SABBAH Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who...
MICHEL FABER Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternali...
MICHEL FABER The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pi...
MICHEL FABER Youth was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy, carefree life, part...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Impeachment is allowed under Brazil's Constitution.
MICHEL TEMER Every time there's an institutional issue like impeachment, there's concern from the outside...
MICHEL TEMER An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do le...
MICHEL FABER The mines have claimed many victims on the allied side.
MICHEL DIATTA When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to ...
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany...
HARTMUT MICHEL What we're seeing, I think, is a drive toward becoming a low-cost supplier.
ALAN MICHEL Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideol...
CHARLES MICHEL