Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGER
(The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.
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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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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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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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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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