Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
JOHN BERGERThe zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
More John Berger Quotes
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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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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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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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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