#pa

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. ↗

— John Berger

#being #best #compassion #natural #natural order

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ↗

— John Berger

#dying #gradually #grows #like #past

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. ↗

— John Berger

#any #belongs #does #drawing #however

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#big #empty #empty space #fall #filled

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#culture #doing #economic #entire #globalization

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay. ↗

— Sandy Berger

#been #convey #countries #cross #deliberate

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#country #encompass #fiction #films #global

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#even #football #france #hear #holland

In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#beings #close #death #found #human

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#always #comic #different #each #events