As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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