What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Quote by Jose Saramago

Topics: Kindness Quotes, Machines Quotes, World Quotes

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

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

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...

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to...

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to...

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...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank...

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank...

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...

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...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

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...

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions...

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions...

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a...

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a...

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.

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...

Americans have discovered fear.

Americans have discovered fear.

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...

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...

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.