Quote by John Berger
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily

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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Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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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

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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. – Proverb

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But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power. – Joshua Chamberlain

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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. – John Boyd Orr

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