Taste Classifies, And It Classifies The Classifier

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.

Only In Imaginary Experience (in The Folk Tale, For Example), Which Neutralizes The Sense Of Social Realities, Does The Social World Take The Form Of A Universe Of Possibles Equally Possible For Any Possible Subject.

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

Unless Saved By Exceptional Talent, He Necessarily Pays The Price Of Clarity.

The Function Of Sociology, As Of Every Science, Is To Reveal That Which Is Hidden.