Pierre Bourdieu

"Culture is the most personal thing there is, yet it is also the most collective."

"The world is not made to be understood, only to be observed and to be lived in."

"Language is not simply an instrument of communication, it is an instrument of power."

"Sociology is not just an academic discipline, it is a way of thinking about the world."

"What we have to do is to strip the cloak of illegitimacy from those who exercise power."

"The principal object of knowledge is not knowledge for its own sake, but the transformation of the world."

"Misunderstanding is the privilege of the intellectual."

"Educational capital is the most valuable form of capital in modern societies."

"Taste is not a natural gift, but a product of social conditioning."

"The habitus is the strategy-generating principle enabling agents to cope with unforeseen and ever-changing situations."

"Symbolic violence is a form of power that imposes meaning as legitimate."

"Cultural reproduction ensures the reproduction of social structures."

"The paradox of human existence is that we must choose, but we cannot choose what we choose."

"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."

"Social capital is the aggregate of actual or potential resources linked to possession of a durable network."

"An intellectual is someone for whom the instrument of his thought is not profit."

"The museum is not a space of pure aesthetic contemplation, but a social space."

"Capital takes time to accumulate and to transmit."

"The intellectual field is a place of struggle and competition."

"Distinction is the basis of social hierarchy."

"Language is a practical matter, not an abstract system."

"Photography is a democratic art form, accessible to everyone."

"To understand is to see the connection between things."

"The body is a social fact, not merely a biological entity."

"Fashion is a system of signs that expresses social position."

"The university is a site where cultural power is produced and reproduced."

"Economic capital is not the only form of capital that matters."

"The social world is structured according to principles of difference and distinction."

"Love is the most profitable form of capital in intimate relationships."

"Authority is what happens when people accept a particular vision of the social order."