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"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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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
"Clothes are a homeless man's home."
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
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