Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
JOHN BERGERA 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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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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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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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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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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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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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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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
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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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My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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