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.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

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

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

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

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

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