We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
JOHN BERGEROne 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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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 power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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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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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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