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"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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

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"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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

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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."

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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

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"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."

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"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?"

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"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."

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"I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see."

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