"The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

“Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.”
“I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.”
“I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.”
“Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.”
“Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.”
“Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.”
“Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.”
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage

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