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> [I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/i-think-if-i-hadn-t-become-a-sociologist-i-would-have-become-very/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

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## More by Pierre Bourdieu

> [“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/everything-economic-science-posits-as-given-that-is-the-range-of/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/every-established-order-tends-to-produce-the-naturalization-of-its/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/symbolic-violence-is-violence-wielded-with-tacit-complicity-between/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/algeria-is-what-allowed-me-to-accept-myself/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/while-economics-is-about-how-people-make-choice-sociology-is-about/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [“The radical questionnings announced by philosophy are in fact circumscribed by the interests linked to membership in the philosophical field, that is, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/the-radical-questionnings-announced-by-philosophy-are-in-fact/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/the-science-called-economics-is-based-on-an-initial-act-of/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of linguistics from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/the-entire-destiny-of-modern-linguistics-is-in-fact-determined-by/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/the-point-of-my-work-is-to-show-that-culture-and-education-arent/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays a price for clarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/unless-saved-by-exceptional-talent-he-necessarily-pays-a-price-for/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/photography-itself-is-most-frequently-nothing-but-the-reproduction-of/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/only-in-imaginary-experience-in-the-folk-tale-for-example-which/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [“A number of ethical, aesthetic, psychiatric or forensic classfications that are produced by the "institutional sciences",not to mention those produced and inculcated by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/a-number-of-ethical-aesthetic-psychiatric-or-forensic-classfications/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

> [The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/the-mind-is-a-metaphor-of-the-world-of-objects/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-bourdieu/television-enjoys-a-de-facto-monopoly-on-what-goes-into-the-heads-of/)

[Pierre Bourdieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-bourdieu/)

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