John Berger Quotes

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush.

We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.

To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun.

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

You are down there alone, the stars seemed to say to him. And we are up here, in our constellations, together.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

But I know this. We're ready to move forward again in our way. Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together.

If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

Bring us together again.

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began.

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.