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

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.

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.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

Real divorce takes place without a decree.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.