Quotes by John Berger

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself....

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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential...

#John Berger

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the...

#John Berger

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork....

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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not...

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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like...

#John Berger

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and...

#John Berger

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an...

#John Berger

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as...

#John Berger

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism...

#Capitalism, #Culture, #Publicity