John Berger Quotes

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

John Berger

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• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  

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• America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

  

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• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

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• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

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• Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

  

  John Berger
  • World
  • Art
  • Dance