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

Roland Barthes Quotes

French - Critic November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980

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

Ahead, Way, Alienation

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

Oppressive, Code, Which

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. Roland Barthes

Needs, Them, Artiste

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man. Roland Barthes

Street, Itself, Offers

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

May, Condition, Which

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see. Roland Barthes

Always, See, Photograph

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality. Roland Barthes

Nature, Steak, Represents

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes

Image, Itself, Public

The photographic image... is a message without a code. Roland Barthes

Image, Code, Photographic

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. Roland Barthes

Confession, Myth, Nor

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. Roland Barthes

Pretty, Been, Eclectic

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. Roland Barthes

New, Always, News

Literature is the question minus the answer. Roland Barthes

Literature, Question, Minus

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. Roland Barthes

Love, Language, Confront

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized! Roland Barthes

Deal, Sentence, Stopped

The New is not a fashion, it is a value. Roland Barthes

Value, Fashion, New

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

Desire, Against, Other

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. Roland Barthes

Blame, Guilt, Call

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

World, Image, Through

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. Roland Barthes

Prove, Without, Which

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