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.

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

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

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

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

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.