Quote by John Berger
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the m

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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – 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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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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By words the mind is winged. – Aristophanes

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Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

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A synonym is a word you use when you cant spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach

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