Berger

Famous quotes containing the word berger:

    Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
    —John Berger (b. 1926)

    All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity—their links with their dead and the unborn.
    —John Berger (b. 1926)