John Berger Quotes & Sayings

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 Envy quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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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 Capitalism quotes   Culture quotes   Publicity quotes 
Suggest Revision: Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
 
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Suggest Revision: The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
 
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Suggest Revision: What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
 
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Suggest Revision: When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
 
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Suggest Revision: You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
 
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Suggest Revision: A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
 
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Suggest Revision: Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
 
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 Compassion quotes   Supernatural quotes 
Suggest Revision: Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
 
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