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Men Quotes by John Berger
- One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
- Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
- Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager,…
- The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
- A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence . . . defines what…
- So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went…
- Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
- Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information…
- Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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