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.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.