John Berger Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.”

“Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.”

“In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.”

“One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.”

“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”

“It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.”

“Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.”

“I very seldom read back into what I've written.”

“The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.”