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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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

— Jose Saramago

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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. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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

— Jose Saramago

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

— Jose Saramago

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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

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