The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
JOHN BERGERA man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
More John Berger Quotes
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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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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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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
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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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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
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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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Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.
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Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects.
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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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A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis.
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Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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