Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

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.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

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

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.