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 BERGERThe animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
More John Berger Quotes
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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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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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist’s own needs; a ‘finished’ statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work – related far more directly to the demands of communication.
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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.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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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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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
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