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.

Quote by Jose Saramago

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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for...

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for...

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not...

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States?...

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States?...

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It...

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing...

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing...

Americans have discovered fear.

Americans have discovered fear.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with...

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with...

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the...

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the...

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left...

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left...

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the...

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the...

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The...

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...

In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in...