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World Quotes by John Berger
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be…
- Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear…
- Nothing fortuitous happens in a child's world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else.…
- Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
- It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that…
- The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.…
- Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking…
- 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…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach