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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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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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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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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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Chinese Proverb

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer

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