'Painting and Culture' p. 57
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)
“Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 164; as cited in: Jan E. M. Houben (1996) Ideology and Status of Sanskrit, p. 190
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French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930–2002Related quotes

Timebends : A Life (1987)
Context: The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different places and moments. I can almost tell what the political situation in a country is when the play is suddenly a hit there — it is either a warning of tyranny on the way or a reminder of tyranny just past.

In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)
Source: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 75

Michael Halliday (1977). "Ideas about Language" Reprinted in Volume 3 of MAK Halliday's Collected Works. Edited by J.J. Webster. London: Continuum. p113.
1970s and later

Ideology and Utopia (1929)
Context: Every bureaucracy, therefore, in accord with the peculiar emphasis on its own position, tends to generalize its own experience and to overlook the fact that the realm of administration and of smoothly functioning order represents only a part of the total political reality. Bureaucratic thought does not deny the possibility of the science of politics, but regards it as identical with the science of administration. Thus irrational factors are overlooked, and when these nevertheless force themselves to the fore, they are treated as "routine matters of state."

Federalist No. 10
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)