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

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 are a god wrapped in flesh

It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.