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Quotes from Mythologies — Roland Barthes

1915–1980 France

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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Mythologies (1957)

The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.

Mythologies (1957)

By reducing any quality to quantity, myth economizes intelligence: it understands reality more cheaply.

Mythologies (1957)

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

Mythologies (1957)

The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.

Mythologies (1957)

Bourgeois norms are experienced as the evident laws of a natural order—the further the bourgeois class propagates its representations, the more naturalized they become.

Mythologies (1957)

Myth deprives the object of which it speaks of all history. In it, history evaporates.

Mythologies (1957)

Statistically, myth is on the right. There, it is essential, well-fed, sleek, expensive, garrulous, it invents itself ceaselessly. It takes hold of everything, all aspects of the law, of morality, of aesthetics, of diplomacy, of household equipment, of Literature, of entertainment.

Mythologies (1957)

Myth is depoliticized speech.

Mythologies (1957)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roland Barthes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.