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

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.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

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

In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.