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.
JOHN BERGERAs Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
More John Berger Quotes
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Whenever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognised as such, was what constituted reality for him. (On Vincent Van Gogh)
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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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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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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