Practice Has A Logic Which Is Not

The Most Successful Ideological Effects Are Those Which Have No Need For Words, And Ask No More Than Complicitous Silence.

Taste Classifies, And It Classifies The Classifier

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.

In Stamping Photography With The Patent Of Realism, Society Does Nothing But Confirm Itself In The Tautological Certainty That An Image Of Reality That Conforms To Its Own Representation Of Objectivity Is Truly Objective.

If The Sociologist Has A Role, It Is Probably More To Furnish Weapons Than To Give Lessons.