Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Rather than being any longer a threat to the established … order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

The organization of order is not the exclusive monopoly of the State

Those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.

Institutions are more powerful than men.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.

An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

The People adore authority.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.