All publicity works upon anxiety.
JOHN BERGERModern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
More John Berger Quotes
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In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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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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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Yet nowherein a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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