Pierre Bourdieu

"Distinction requires the subordination of others."

"Social structure reproduces itself through the actions of individuals."

"Legitimacy is the foundation upon which all power rests."

"The university is a site of both reproduction and resistance."

"Capital circulation maintains the existence of the field itself."

"What is forbidden is often the most desired."

"The intellectual must think against their own position."

"Markets do not function without frameworks of cultural meaning."

"The struggle for recognition is the struggle for existence itself."

"Language embodies the power relations of its speakers."

"Art movements are expressions of generational class struggles."

"The body bears the traces of all that society has made it."

"Objectification is the fate of those without cultural authority."

"Every field has its own logic that cannot be reduced to economics."

"What appears as personal taste is actually social positioning."

"The school teaches both knowledge and deference."

"Symbolic systems are instruments of knowledge and communication."

"The pursuit of distinction creates social distance and hierarchy."

"Intellectual work requires breaking with the doxa of one's field."

"Violence is most effective when it appears justified and natural."

"The social world is constructed through the work of human agents."

"Every institution is an instrument of social reproduction."

"Reflexivity is the path to greater understanding of society."

"The field of power is where all other fields are determined."

"Social structures constrain us at the same moment they enable us."

"What seems impossible from within the field may be obvious from outside."

"The conquest of cultural authority is a form of class struggle."

"Inheritance reproduces not just wealth but entire worldviews."

"The social sciences must study the social conditions of knowledge itself."

"Style is a declaration of social allegiance and aspiration."