"The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent 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."

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Source : "The Intellectual Class Struggle". New York Times, January 6, 2001.

Pierre Bourdieu

#Class Quotes #Differences Quotes #Important Quotes

“The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and societyâ€™s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying personâ€™s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.”
“You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'”
“I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that Ive spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.”
“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.”
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
“Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence.”
“Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.”
“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldnâ€™t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”

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