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

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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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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasnt changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. – John Berger

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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. – Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Capitalism

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. – Henry George

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Capitalism

Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet. – Vadim Bakatin

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Capitalism

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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! – Taslima Nasrin

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Maybe weve been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. Its something thats open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. – John Shelton Reed

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Food

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy. – French proverb

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