Man is rotten with perfection.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Language does our thinking for us.

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.