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

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 best thought of as being in some way supernatural. – John Berger

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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness. – John Berger

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind. – David Ehrenfeld, The Arrogance of Humanism, 1978

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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. – Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle

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If I dont have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. – Leo Buscaglia

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. – Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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