I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
ROLAND BARTHESToday there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
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The new is not a fashion, it is a value.
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The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
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We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.
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Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.
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If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
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The photographic image is a message without a code.
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It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel
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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.
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
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To eat steak rare represents both a nature and a morality.
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The realists do not take the photograph for a ‘copy’ of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.
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Language is never innocent.
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
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I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
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