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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose Saramago
Thoughts
Man
Order
Words
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
Language
Needs
Writers
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Jose Saramago
Attitude
Americans
Relationships
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago
Work
Beginning
Revolution
Literary
Result
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
Jose Saramago
Ideas
Right
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
Government
People
Illusion
Reality
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
Change
Civilization
World
Years
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
People
Elections
Will
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
Time
Possibility
Job
Worth
Writer
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
Being
Killing
Machines
Nothing
World
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
Capitalism
World
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
America
Will
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.
Jose Saramago
Content
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Jose Saramago
World
The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
Jose Saramago
Control
Military
Needs