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.

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.

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.

S is for SCARY! Fear is driven out by action! Bad habits are overcome by good habits.

I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

What your critics say about you is unimportant. You are what you think of yourself.

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.