This will to truth, like other systems of exclusion, relies on institutional support: it is both reinforced and accompanied by whole strata of practices such as pedagogy, of course, such as the book-system, publishing, libraries, such as the learned societies in the past, and laboratories today. But it is probably even more profoundly accompanied by the manner in which knowledge [le savoir] is employed in a society, the ways in which it is exploited, divided and in some ways, attributed.

Michel Foucault, L’Ordre du discours, pp. 19-20. Translation very slightly modified from the Rupert Swyer one in The Archaeology of Knowledge, p. 219.