Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
JOHN BERGERPublicity 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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