Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

Empty your life from the baggage of the past so you may enjoy the beauty of the present.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

All men would be cowards if they durst.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it

I over-think stuff a lot.

If you think about it, we are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."