Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
JOHN BERGERThe past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can’t do is to change its consequences.
More John Berger Quotes
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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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We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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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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Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
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These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
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All publicity works upon anxiety.
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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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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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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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Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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