Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGERFanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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To be naked is to be oneself.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
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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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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
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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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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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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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