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.
JOHN BERGERCompassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
More John Berger Quotes
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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.
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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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Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonight how many years of learning by heart I waited for you.
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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 opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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