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.
JOHN BERGER
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.
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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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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
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What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion.
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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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To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often 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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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