Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

- Pierre Bourdieu

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

- Pierre Bourdieu

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

- Pierre Bourdieu

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

- Pierre Bourdieu

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

- Pierre Bourdieu

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

- Pierre Bourdieu

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

- Pierre Bourdieu

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financia…

- Pierre Bourdieu

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

- Pierre Bourdieu