Pierre Bourdieu/bourdieu%e2%80%99s Theory of Power and Practice

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    “The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    “By practice and conviction formed,
    With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
    Although her body clung and swarmed,
    My own identity remained.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)