Quote by John Berger
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but. – John Berger

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Animals
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Criticism
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. – John Berger

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Experience
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. – Quentin Crisp

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Language

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. – Marshall Lumsden

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Language

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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Language

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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Language

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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. – Plato

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I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. – Jean Dujardin

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Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality. – King Hussein I

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