#is

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#ever #i #knew #life #man

Americans have discovered fear. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#fear

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #deliver #desires #i #i am

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

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

— Jose Saramago

#am #been #convictions #i #i am

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#because #effect #essayist #essays #failed

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

Words are loaded pistols. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#pistols #words

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#despise #hate #our #take #them

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#faith #himself #i #i have learned #learned