Pierre Bourdieu

"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."

"By making social hierarchies and the reproduction of these hierarchies appear based upon the hierarchy of ‘gifts’, merits, or skill established and ratified by its sanctions, or, in a word, by convert…"

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

"The New York Times obituary"

"The practical mastery of the logic or of the imminent necessity of a game — a mastery acquired by experience of the game, and one which works outside conscious control and discourse ."

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