This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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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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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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