Roland Barthes quotes

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The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always th ...
The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually re ...
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, con ...
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies ...
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, ...
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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