Pierre Bourdieu famous quotes

05-15-2025

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

#Successful #Silence #Needs
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Males #Domination #Collectives
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Order #Produce
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Thinking #Television #Population
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Pay #Clarity #Talent
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Class #Differences #Important
Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Taste
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Giving #Roles #Lessons
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Mind #World #Metaphor
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Sociology #Function
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Art #Mean #Self
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Hobbies #Culture #Influence
Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Algeria #Accepting
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Agents #Violence #Victim
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Suicide #Loss #Law
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Practice #Logic
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Reality #World #Example
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.
-- Pierre Bourdieu

#Art #Struggle #Understanding

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