To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
JOHN BERGERWithout ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
More John Berger Quotes
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The zoo cannot but disappoint.
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For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.
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You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn’t work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.
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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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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
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Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.
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It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
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The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.
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Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
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Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.
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It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
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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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