Logo
Quote by John Berger
Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publ

Publicity is the life of this culture — in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive — and at the same time publicity is its dream. – John Berger

Other quotes by John Berger

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

Category:
Photography
Author
John Berger
Read Quote

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

Category:
Nudity
Author
John Berger
Read Quote

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

Category:
Criticism
Author
John Berger
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Capitalism
category

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. – Pete Holiday

Category:
Capitalism

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Capitalism

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. – Albert Camus

Category:
Capitalism

When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything. – Nikita Khrushchev

Category:
Capitalism

Random Quotes

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Category:
Success

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasps nest. – Pope Paul VI

Category:
Anger

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

Category:
Leadership

I dont claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday Im home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter. – Jimmy Carter

Category:
Experience