"To dope the racer is as criminal, as……" — Roland Barthes
"To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark."
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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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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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The photographic image... is a message without a code.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good…
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We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion…
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have…
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which…
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral…
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