Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal – John Berger
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger
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 to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger