You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGERIn the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
More John Berger Quotes
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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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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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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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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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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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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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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