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Us Quotes by John Berger
- That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the…
- 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…
- I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both…
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.…
- 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…
- The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle