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.

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

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Don't be the team that gets hurt.

I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

Every day, you are to offer your life to God for His service. You do not serve Him in your spare time or with your leftover resources. The way you live your life for God is your offering to Him.

Life is all about finding your place. All of us are vulnerable, and at times we all feel adrift. But somehow, we all muddle through. He'll be fine. Like the rest of us. We just need some faith.