Quotes by Barthes, Roland

To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that >>

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, henc >>

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; >>

Quotations about Language

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, >>

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resou >>

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Langua >>

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

Barthes, Roland