Michel Foucault, Language,

“Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The success of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules, to replace those who have used them, to disguise themselves so as to perfect them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them.”

— Michel Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, Practice