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Jose Saramago quotes about change

Portuguese Writer November 16, 1922 – June 18, 2010

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The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens. As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved, it's the citizen who changes things. I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Jose Saramago
...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another... Jose Saramago
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
Jose Saramago quote: "One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds..."
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do. Jose Saramago
The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. Jose Saramago
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago quote: "As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become..."
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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