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John Berger,Jean Mohr

Another Way of Telling

  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    Every revolutionary protest is also a project against people being the objects of history.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted3 years ago
    The most definite information this photograph gives is about the type of bridle the horse is wearing, and this is certainly not the reason why it was taken.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhas quoted3 years ago
    For myself, I’m not too fat, my nose is large but not unreasonably long. And yet for years I could not accept my own physical appearance. I used to dream of looking like Samuel Beckett. (To have a profile like his would perhaps also imply another way of life.)
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    All subjectivity is treated as private, and the only (false) form of it which is socially allowed is that of the individual consumer’s dream.
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    What was achieved was unprecedented scientific and technical progress and, eventually, the subordination of all other values to those of a world market which treats everything, including people and their labour and their lives and their deaths, as a commodity.
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    What sustained them all as practices was the belief that observable quantifiable facts, recorded by scientists and experts, would one day offer man such a total knowledge about nature and society that he would be able to order them both.
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    Personal psychology replaces philosophy as an explanation of the world.
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    The space for this construction is, as it were, cleared by his rejection of what he did not choose to photograph.
  • Janna S.has quoted2 years ago
    Today, when things are changing politically and it seems possible for man to change his fate, such people are becoming aware of the differences between different countries.
  • Ann Latukhovahas quoted2 years ago
    Why is it that what is useful is always so ugly?
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