Logo
Quote by Roland Barthes
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor

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

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

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. – Roland Barthes

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

When will pleasure crash with regret? – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Pleasure

Pleasure and discipline need to stay close friends. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Pleasure

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. – Proverb

Category:
Pleasure

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. – William Burroughs

Category:
Pleasure

Random Quotes

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Cooking, Culinary

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. – Kevin James

Category:
Thanksgiving Day

Its not the bulls and bears you need to avoid — its the bum steers. – Chuck Hillis

Category:
Investment

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
Love