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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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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Media
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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

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Language
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. – Jim Bishop

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Words are all we have. – Samuel Beckett

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When I was born I was so surprised I didnt talk for a year and a half. – Gracie Allen

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Words of love, are works of love. – William R. Alger

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