Quotes By Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

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.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

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.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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 won't give up.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.