The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

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

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.