The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGERPropaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
More John Berger Quotes
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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