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

#govern #ideas #left #need #problem

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#asia #control #east #gateway #installations

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

#another #been #before #begins #change

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

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #governed #imf #institutions #world

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

— Jose Saramago

#put #reasons #up #world

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

— Jose Saramago

#content #everything #lose #times

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

#backyard #bad #consider #doctrines #empire

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

#coordinate #different #different world #international #into

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

#does #human #human being #killing #kind

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? ↗

— Jose Saramago

#ask #bases #countries #does #how