Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

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.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren't.

Had we less to say to those we love, perhaps we should say it oftener.

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul.

I think most folks are good folks.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.