Quote by Roland Barthes
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the pow

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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Im not after fame and success and fortune and power. Its mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends thats the good stuff in life. – Drew Barrymore

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault

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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. – Virginia Woolf

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