Roland Barthes

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!