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.
JOHN BERGER
Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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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 never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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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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Matisse did neither. He clashed his colours together like cymbals and the effect was like a lullaby.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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