“The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.” NeedsIdeasProblemLeft Author:Jose Saramago
“Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingLooksLawHappenedStreetsMovementGiving UpEmploymentFranceProtestWon't Give UpProtest Movements Author:Jose Saramago
“The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.” KnowsMenWorldNeedsMightWomenConceptionMaryAlmightyVirginsMen WomenAlmighty GodVirgin MaryImmaculateImmaculate Conception Author:Jose Saramago
“Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.” PeopleNeedsEnoughLife Is Author:Jose Saramago
“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.” NeedsLittlesDoePlayActionCoursesGamesNaturalDestinyWorryHarmonyInfiniteFingersInterfereOccasionalAdjustmentPawns Author:Jose Saramago
“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.” KnowsNeedsStillsMomentsFactsPerfectGreaterObviousGravesSublimeDisadvantagesVergeShort LivedPerfect Moments Author:Jose Saramago
“Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.” PeopleNeedsMatterNamesVoiceBlindBlind PeopleBlind Person Author:Jose Saramago
“The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.” NeedsMeanNightSimpleMorningDutyMembersTasksVariousCeaseEmployeeCategoriesNow And ThenSeniorDistributionObligedSmall PartsClerksDeputies Author:Jose Saramago
“Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.” PeopleNeedsWellsTreated Author:Jose Saramago
“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.” NeedsUseMightLanguageTinyBedtime Author:Jose Saramago
“The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.” NeedsMiddleMilitaryEastMiddle EastEasterAsiaGatewaysInstallationUzbekistan Author:Jose Saramago
“Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.” NeedsFacesBlameEntityShowers Author:Jose Saramago
“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.” NeedsExistenceBreadJustification Author:Jose Saramago
“But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.” NeedsPoorOblivionLapses Author:Jose Saramago
