We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

- Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and th…

- Roland Barthes

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

- Roland Barthes

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language t…

- Roland Barthes

Literature is the question minus the answer.

- Roland Barthes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

- Roland Barthes

Every photograph is a certificate of presence.

- Roland Barthes

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

- Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

- Roland Barthes