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

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.

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.

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

...if that energy could have been channelled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.

Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.

There is so much else in the world that is more interesting [ than monarchy].

You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

Most people are either awakened to or are strengthened in their spiritual journey by experiences in the natural world.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

Interesting, isn’t it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? (Savitar) They’re on crack. (Fury) Anyone else on crack? (Savitar)

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.