Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGEROurs is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
More John Berger Quotes
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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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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What do drawings mean to me? I really don’t know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don’t think happens with any other activity.
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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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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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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.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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