“. . . [H]ow not to be governed like that,
in the name of those principles,
with such and such an objective in mind
and by means of such procedures,
not like that,
not for that,
not by them.”“. . . [A]s both partner and adversary to the arts of governing, as an act of defiance, as a way of limiting these arts of governing and sizing them up, transforming them, of finding a way to escape from them or a way to displace them, with a basic distrust, a kind of general cultural form, both a political and moral attitude, a way of thinking, etc. which I would very simply call the art of not being governed or better, the art of not being governed like that and at that cost. I would therefore propose, as a very first definition of critique, this general characterization: the art of not being governed quite so much.”

Michel Foucault | “What is Critique?” | The Politics of Truth | Semiotexte, 2005