Pierre Bourdieu

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.

I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.