No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. — John Peter Berger
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Peter Berger
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning — John Peter Berger
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because — John Peter Berger
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. — John Peter Berger
Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism — John Peter Berger
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. — John Peter Berger
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. — John Peter Berger
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. — John Peter Berger
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored. — John Peter Berger
The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. — John Peter Berger
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Peter Berger
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. — John Peter Berger
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of death to the notion of time itself. — John Peter Berger
It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. — John Peter Berger