If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

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.

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.