Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

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