1. “The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”
2. “The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”
3. “The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren’t simply hobbies or minor influences.”
4. “Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier.”
5. “Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.”
6. “Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.”
7. “Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
8. “If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”
9. “The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.”
10. “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.”
11. “Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.”
12. “Femininity is imposed for the most part through an unremitting discipline that concerns every part of the body and is continuously recalled through the constraints of clothing or hairstyle.”
13. “The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular dimension of all practice, from the social order in which all human practice is immersed.”
14. “Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.”
15. “Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.”
