I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.Jose Saramago
As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
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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.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Jose Saramago
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