As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
JOHN BERGERSeeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.
More John Berger Quotes
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this – as in other ways – they are the opposite of paintings.
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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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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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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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The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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