“What on earth do they hope to achieve by that, demonstrations never achieve anything, if they did, we wouldn't allow them.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“There must be a government, said the first blind man I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“You might think that after all the shameful capitulations made by the government during the ups and downs of their negotiations with… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Everything is argued over in this world. Apart from only one thing that is not argued over. Nobody argues about democracy. Democracy… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há… — José Saramago Copy Share
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be… — José Saramago Copy Share
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“... aborrece os odores nocturnos, aquelas expansões do corpo a que nem poetas escapam".” — José Saramago Copy Share
