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 BERGERBy contrast, a woman’s presence… defines what can and cannot be done to her.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
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This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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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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Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
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