"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. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied … but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017
A life in quotes: John Berger
The Guardian has gathered together some quotes of the late John Berger, one of the most influential writers of his generation:
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