Logo
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

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! – Roland Barthes

Category:
Interviews
Author
Roland Barthes
Read Quote

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Language
Author
Roland Barthes
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
power
category

Force without forecast is to little avail. – Proverb

Category:
power

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller

Category:
power

Thank you power is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them – so youve got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past. – Deborah Norville

Category:
power

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

Category:
power

Random Quotes

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. – John Hodgman

Category:
Success

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. – William Glasser

Category:
Education

When youre sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom. – Trisha Yearwood

Category:
mom

History is a pageant and not a philosophy. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History

Category:
History