Portuguese - Writer | November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Jose Saramago
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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?
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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.
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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I am not a prophet.
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I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
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