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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.

John Berger

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Absence Painting Presence Real Something Thing
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Look Love Men Women
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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Behind Bourgeois Building Conservatories Door Furniture Galleries Go House Shutting Street Way
Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Basic Best Compassion Necessity Oppose Order Therefore World
Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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Animal Born Distinguish Men Relationship Symbol Yet
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
JOHN BERGER

Advertising Assembly Being Competing Language Merely Message Messages Same Use
It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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Allow Artist Certain Colour Comparitively Dominate Easy Mute Together Unity
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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More Mystery Pain Philosophical Presecute Space Speculation
The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.
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Back Herself Love Offer Price Product Publicity Stealing
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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Between Explicit Fully Make Relationship Stories Trying Universal Usually Writing
To be naked is to be oneself.
JOHN BERGER

Be Naked Oneself
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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Alive Cicadas Legend Poem Poet Quiet Soul
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Arches Breathing Cigarettes Parentless Space
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Around Help Look Marvelous People See Terrible Want World Writing
It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
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Establish Explain Fact Facts Place Seeing Surround Undo Word World
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.
JOHN BERGER

Capitalism Culture Dream Publicity Same Time

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