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

— Pierre Bourdieu

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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.

Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977)

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977)

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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