338 Quotes by Roland Barthes

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

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

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

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

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

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

There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this. Something like a profound suspension of judgment.

The necessary condition for an image is sight,

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