John Berger Quotes

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

America can only live up to its potential when each and every American has the chance to live up to your potential, too.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

Free societies allow for the reinvention of self and the evolution of faith.

Science, which has transformed the material world, gives man the power of transforming himself.

People change when they have to – not when we tell them to.

A child is the very sign and sacrament of personal freedom. He is a fresh will added to the wills of the world; he is something that his parents have freely chosen to produce ... he is their own creative contribution to creation.

I don't feel the need to define nothin' to nobody, because I'm always changing. Why say that I'm this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I'm gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.

Nationalism has nothing to do with the rule of law, justice, or opportunity.

In America, we can reinvent ourselves - we're encouraged to.

I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.

Being a foreigner bad guy doesn't have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.

There are no limitations. There are no barriers. Nothing can stop you, and nothing can define you but you.