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.
JOHN BERGERCompassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
More John Berger Quotes
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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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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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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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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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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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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
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