Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity.
JOHN BERGERWe 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.
More John Berger Quotes
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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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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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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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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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 past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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