A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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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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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys 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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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