The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.