Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity.
JOHN BERGERIt dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
More John Berger Quotes
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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal
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History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
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It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
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For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
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We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
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No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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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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The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.
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