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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.

John Berger

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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Common Common Sense Deprive Fundamental Home Ideology Ignorant Learning Part Sense
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Choices Ethics Future Itself Mankind Men Priorities
The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Invisible Photograph Play Time True
You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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Course Else Life Line Obey Other People Respect Somebody
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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Everything Four Happen Make Place Possible Story Take Wall
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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Bureaucrat Envied Envy Greater Illusion Power Themselves
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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Accustom Blessing Bored Chain Dog Sausage Self
Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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Different Forget Look Meaning Pain Remember Thing
We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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Earth Explanation Knowledge Quite Sight Yet
All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Different Marriage Similar Wedding
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.
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Achievement Behind Deceptive Landscape Life Seem Setting Sometimes Struggle Success
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Aqtch Look Men Sight Vision Women
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
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Death Flirting Flow Life Photography
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama.
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Actor Art Before Both Bring Cinema Compare Drama Dramatix Nature Public Right Season
For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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