A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
JOHN BERGERAs Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
More John Berger Quotes
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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 century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.
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This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
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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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We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
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The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
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If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
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Today the discredit of words is very great.
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It is comparatively easy to achieve a certain unity in a picture by allowing one colour to dominate, or by muting all the colours.
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