#ole

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #democratic system #effect #enough #moment

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#attitude #characteristic #form #insolent #others

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

— Jose Saramago

#ever #i #knew #life #man

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

Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#again #apologise #being #dimension #enough

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#doing #get #heterosexual #i #into

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#chance #could #discover #get #go

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#cannot #cries #deny #does #exist

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#another #because #community #involve #longer