I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
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The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation.
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Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
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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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Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
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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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The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.
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Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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