Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Jose Saramago
Americans have discovered fear.
Jose Saramago
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
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Jose Saramago
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
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
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
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Jose Saramago
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
Jose Saramago
I am not a prophet.
Jose Saramago
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
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
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
Jose Saramago
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
Jose Saramago
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
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Jose Saramago
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
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
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
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
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
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Jose Saramago
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Jose Saramago
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
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
Jose Saramago
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Jose Saramago
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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?
Jose Saramago
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose सारामागो
Jose Saramago
Americans have discovered fear.
Jose Saramago
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
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
Jose Saramago
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
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
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
I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
Jose Saramago
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
Jose Saramago
I am not a prophet.
Jose Saramago
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
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
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
Jose Saramago
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
Jose Saramago
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
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Jose Saramago
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
Jose Saramago
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
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
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
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
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Jose Saramago
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
Jose Saramago
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Jose Saramago
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
The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
Jose Saramago
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Jose Saramago
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramago
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.
Jose Saramago
We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.
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?
Jose Saramago
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
Jose Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose सारामागो
| The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels. Jose Saramago |
| Every man has his own patch of earth to cultivate. What’s important is that he dig deep. Jose Saramago |
| I was not born for all this glory. Jose Saramago On winning Nobel Prize for Literature 1998. |
| The apprentice thought, "we are blind", and he sat down and wrote Blindness to remind those who might read it that we pervert reason when we humiliate life, that human dignity is insulted every day by the powerful of our world, that the universal lie has replaced the plural truths, that man stopped respecting himself when he lost the respect due to his fellow-creatures. Jose Saramago On writing novel Blindness, Nobel Prize for Literature acceptence speech, 1998. |
| In one sense it could even be said that, letter-by-letter, word-by-word, page-by-page, book after book, I have been successively implanting in the man I was the characters I created. I believe that without them I wouldn't be the person I am today; without them maybe my life wouldn't have succeeded in becoming more than an inexact sketch, a promise that like so many others remained only a promise, the existence of someone who maybe might have been but in the end could not manage to be. Jose Saramago Nobel lecture, 1998. |
| The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits. Jose Saramago The Observer newspaper UK, May 2006. |
| I am not a bad person. I hurt only with my tongue! Jose Saramago |
| We live in a dark age, when freedoms are diminishing, when there is no space for criticism, when totalitarianism — the totalitarianism of multinational corporations, of the marketplace — no longer even needs an ideology, and religious intolerance is on the rise. Orwell’s ‘1984’ is already here. Jose Saramago New York Times, 2007. |
| I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| Just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| For dignity has no price, that when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| Just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| The difficult thing isn’t living with other people, it’s understanding them. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see. Jose Saramago Blindness. |
| There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago The Double. |
| In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. Jose Saramago On his 2005 novel Death With Interruptions, which depicts Death as woman who goes on strike because she is fed up with being hated by people. |
| All my books without exception deal with the improbable and the impossible. Jose Saramago |
| The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. Jose Saramago |
| Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. 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? Jose Saramago |
| 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 On how September 11 changed the world. |
| Americans have discovered fear. Jose Saramago On September 11 terrorist attack. |
| We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. Jose Saramago |
| Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters. Jose Saramago |
| 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 |
| All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident. Jose Saramago |
| 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 |
| I don't trust television, unless I can see things with these eyes of mine that the earth will one day devour, I don’t believe in them. Jose Saramago Character in The Stone Raft. |
| This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not. Jose Saramago Mary in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. |
| If my grandfather had been a rich landowner and not an illiterate pig breeder, I wouldn’t be the man I am today. If I could choose my own background — even with the cold of the winters, the heat of the summers, sometimes going hungry — I wouldn’t change a thing. Jose Saramago |
| Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Americans have discovered fear. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| As for the new world order, for the time being it will continue to be an arrangement that is convenient to the United States. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| At 83, I don't hope for much, but you have to keep a perspective. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| By 1974 - the year of the revolution that ended nearly 50 years of dictatorship in Portugal - I had published only six books. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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? Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| For 20 years or so I wrote little and published nothing. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Here in Spain, 90 percent of the population was against the war, and nobody in power was interested. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Hugo Chavez is someone who wants to make changes, and he has found the way to reach straight into the hearts and minds of the Venezuelan people. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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? Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I am not a prophet. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I don't think anyone would be able to find and trace that line that leads, in a person's life, from nothing to something. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I don't think there is anything more effective than demanding and keeping a vigilant watch over rigorous respect for human rights. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I have this habit of only talking about my books for a few minutes, then I prefer to spend the time talking about the world in which we find ourselves, a world which is a disaster. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I published a novel - Terra do Pecado - when I was just 24 years old. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| I'm a writer, but I live in this world and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| If people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| In 1955, I started to spend part of my free time in translation, an activity that would continue till 1981. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| In Madrid and London, we marched, we did our duty, then we went home and those in power did nothing. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| It seems I am considered to be a political moralist. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| It was becoming quite clear to me that I had nothing worthwhile to say. For 19 years, I was absent from the Portuguese literary scene. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| My parents reached the conclusion that, in the absence of resources, they could not go on keeping me in the grammar school. So for five years I learned to be a mechanic. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Since September 11, something has changed in the collective mentality of North Americans, who have lost the conviction that the United States are protected. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The distinct narrative voice became the hallmark of my work. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The human being of the future will be different from us. I am not sure at all that he and I would be able to understand each other. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. I believe we all have some influence, not because one is an artist, but because we are citizens. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| 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. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| This is a part of my life that I consider very important, not to limit myself to literary work; I try to be involved in the world to the best of my strengths and abilities. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Tomorrow, the role of the world leader may belong to China, a China once and for all converted to capitalism. Then, the United States will once again experience fear. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Up to and including The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, I was describing statues, insofar as a statue is the external surface of a stone. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Usually I end up talking about the problem of democracy, whether we truly have a democratic system, and I believe that we don't. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| We have to spend days on the street if we have to, until those in power recognise that the people are not happy. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| What I try to do when I write is to get people thinking. I wouldn't like to leave this life without at least knowing that I tried to do something. Quotation of 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? Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| When I was about 19, and I was asked what I would like to be. I answered that I would like to be a writer. I did not postpone for long trying to achieve that objective. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
| Writing became a regular activity for me-that old desire to be a writer was no longer so clear in my mind. I kept writing as a matter of habit. Quotation of Jose Saramago |
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