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.

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

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

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

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

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

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

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

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

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

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

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.

The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

What would you do if you had to choose?

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Deliver infinite growth having your customers talk about you, exclaim you and tell their friends and colleagues about you.

Creation is great, and cannot be understood.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.