Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
JOHN BERGERAll creation is in the art of seeing.
More John Berger Quotes
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.
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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 spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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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.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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