Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
JOHN BERGERGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
More John Berger Quotes
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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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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Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation.
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy.
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We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.
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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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To be naked is to be oneself.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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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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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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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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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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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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