Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
JOHN BERGERTo live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
More John Berger Quotes
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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