Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
JOHN BERGERToday the discredit of words is very great.
More John Berger Quotes
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But toemigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
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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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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
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It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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