“ I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Roland Barthes
“ As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. Roland Barthes
“ Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. Roland Barthes
“ There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. Roland Barthes
“ To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought...? Roland Barthes
“ If I like a photograph, if it disturbs me, I linger over it. What am I doing, during the whole times I remain with it? I look at it, I scrutinize it, as if I wanted to know more about the thing or the… Roland Barthes
“ …This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the subject (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Pa… Roland Barthes
“ Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes
“ What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. Roland Barthes
“ 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
“ The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers… Roland Barthes
“ I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will r… Roland Barthes
“ In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject. Roland Barthes
“ [Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nour… Roland Barthes
