Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
JOHN BERGER
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
More John Berger Quotes
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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
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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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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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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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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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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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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.
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