Pierre Bourdieu

male domination root collective unconsciousness

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

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

order establish arbitrariness

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

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

mind metaphor world object

“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.”

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

talent clarity price

“Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.”

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

question philosophy membership censor

“The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the very existence of this field and the corresponding censorships.”

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

sociology hot coal alive dead

“In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried”

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

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“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.”

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

ideology effect complicitious silence

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

― Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)