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Jose Saramago Quotes
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, youre saying you have a political conscience but you dont agree with any of the existing parties. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Americans have discovered fear. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. - Jose Saramago Quotes
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - its the citizen who changes things. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? - Jose Saramago Quotes
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases? - Jose Saramago Quotes
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I am not a prophet. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I cant imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. - Jose Saramago Quotes
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. - Jose Saramago Quotes
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didnt know how to write essays. - Jose Saramago Quotes
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. - Jose Saramago Quotes
It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. - Jose Saramago Quotes
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who wont give up. - Jose Saramago Quotes
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but its only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. - Jose Saramago Quotes
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. - Jose Saramago Quotes
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. - Jose Saramago Quotes
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. - Jose Saramago Quotes
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. - Jose Saramago Quotes
The problem is that the right doesnt need any ideas to govern, but the left cant govern without ideas. - Jose Saramago Quotes
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. - Jose Saramago Quotes
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