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

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    “There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.”
    —A.J. (Alfred Jules)

    “It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
    —Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)

    “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)