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

Famous quotes containing the words theory, power and/or practice:

“By the “mud-sill” theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be—all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly.... Free labor insists on universal education.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“The astonishment of life, is, the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)