When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?
Jose SaramagoBeing fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
Jose Saramagobut it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
Jose SaramagoThe world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.
Jose Saramago