The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

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 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.

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Once I tried to use Him, now He uses me.

You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

I've still kind of maintained a low profile but people still kind of recognize you and will come up to you, and that's taken a bit of getting used to.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

One woman is a pest and two women is a team, but three women or more is a coalition. If you can bring a lot of people together as a coalition, you can get a lot changed.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.