"...language is never innocent." — Roland Barthes
"...language is never innocent."
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Roland Barthes
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122 Quotes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes has 122 quotes on this site.
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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious…
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More Innocent Quotes
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
— J. G. Ballard
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the…
— Honore de Balzac
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
— Charles Baudelaire
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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And…
— Joe Biden
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them…
— Danny Boyle
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is…
— John O. Brennan
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
— Abdallah II
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