John Berger Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

  John Berger

  Dream, Culture, Publicity

• Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

  John Berger

  Country, Majority, Today

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

  John Berger

  Envy, Culture, Satisfaction

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