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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

Roland Barthes Biography

  Nationality: French
Type: Critic

Born: November 12, 1915
Death: March 25, 1980
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