Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
JOHN BERGERThe contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
More John Berger Quotes
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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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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This 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.
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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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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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 happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set.
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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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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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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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