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

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.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.

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

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