One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
JOHN BERGERAll publicity works upon anxiety.
More John Berger Quotes
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest – if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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By contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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