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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
Explore more quotes by John Berger
"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
"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."
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."
"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
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