A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGERWhen he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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