If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

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.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.