As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERWhenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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