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

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

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

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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

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