3 Quotes By Roland Barthes


Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes on knowledge

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.
Roland Barthes on power

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes on society