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.
JOHN BERGERHope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
More John Berger Quotes
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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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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A photograph is a result of the photographer’s decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.
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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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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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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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The 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.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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