641 Quotes by José Saramago

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

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

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

Your questions are false if you already know the answer.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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