"The photographic image... is a message without a…" — Roland Barthes
"The photographic image... is a message without a code."
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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 Code Quotes
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than…
— John Perry Barlow
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget…
— Roland Barthes
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I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find…
— Glenn Beck
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Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the…
— Annie Besant
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The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in…
— Dan Brown
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door…
— Dan Brown
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the…
— Herman Cain
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That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
— Herman Cain
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The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners…
— Herman Cain
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