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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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 Saramago

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