The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGERThis was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
More John Berger Quotes
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
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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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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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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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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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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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