Althusser, Louis

"Ideology is a representation of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence."

"There is no practice except by and in an ideology."

"The ideological state apparatuses function massively and predominantly by ideology."

"Marxism is not a humanism."

"Ideology interpellates individuals as subjects."

"All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects."

"The school is the dominant ideological state apparatus."

"Science is the process of knowledge production."

"Theory must be our guide."

"The bourgeoisie produces a world after its own image."

"History is a process without a subject."

"The last instance is never reached."

"Base and superstructure are not transparent to themselves."

"Contradiction is the motor force of history."

"There is no history except the history of the class struggle."

"The revolution must become permanent."

"Intellectuals have a responsibility to speak truth to power."

"Culture is the battlefield of ideology."

"Literature is not a mirror of society."

"Art operates through a distancing effect."

"Knowledge is always situated and partial."

"We are born into ideology."

"The subject is an illusion."

"Identity is constructed through social processes."

"Language is a material force."

"Meaning is never stable or fixed."

"Power operates through invisible structures."

"Domination works best when it appears natural."

"The personal is not political; the personal is ideological."

"We are all already always subjects of ideology."