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

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

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

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

The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

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.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.