Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where… — 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
From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He… — Jose 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
