Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
JOHN BERGERThe power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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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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What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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