Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
JOHN BERGEREmigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
More John Berger Quotes
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I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.
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We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
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A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.
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The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals.
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[O]ften 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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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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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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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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.
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