The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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

Real love allows for failure and suffering.

In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.

Impressive, most impressive, worthy lad, Thine Obi-Wan hath taught thee well, and thouHast master'd all thy fears. Now, go! ReleaseThine anger, for thy hate alone can strikeMe down!

The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.