27 Quotations by Roland Barthes
- 1. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular s ...
- 2. For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w ...
- 3. Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and prole ...
- 4. I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
- 5. I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the s ...
- 6. Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, ...
- 7. Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, ...
- 8. Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we f ...
- 9. Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it ...
- 10. Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
- 11. New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of ...
- 12. Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a co ...
- 13. Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, De ...
- 14. The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new fil ...
- 15. The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.
- 16. The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
- 17. The photographic image... is a message without a code.
- 18. The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his s ...
- 19. There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spect ...
- 20. There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and p ...
Roland Barthes Quotes by Power Quotations
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