John Berger Quotes

The 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.
JOHN BERGER

Exactly Prisoner Wish
Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers.
JOHN BERGER

Constellation First Invented Named Star Storyteller
The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
JOHN BERGER

Feel May Minimize Monopoly Sexual Spectator Such
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top;
JOHN BERGER

Italian Top Traditional
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
JOHN BERGER

never Presume Principal Protagonist Rude Spectator
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.
JOHN BERGER

Camera Like Relieve Survey Us Yet
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.
JOHN BERGER

Anywhere Every Hour Modern Political Thousand
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it.
JOHN BERGER

Doe Drawing Image Imitation Rendering Subject Trace Unlike Viewer Visual
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
JOHN BERGER

Pass Unlike Year Younger
Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.
JOHN BERGER

Choices Itself Mankind

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