641 Quotes by José Saramago

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.

I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.

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.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world...

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?