When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss.
JOHN BERGERCapitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
More John Berger Quotes
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances.
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Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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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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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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Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act.
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.
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