Knowledge and Power
“Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; the truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a ‘political history of truth’ would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free — nor error servile — but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.”
Michel Foucault, A History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction, 60.