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" The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. "

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" There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. "

" Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.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. "

" We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations. "

" Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. "

" Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. "

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

" I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. "

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

" Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? "

" Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer. "

" 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. "

" What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being? "

" The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. "

" Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. "

" The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. "

" I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist. "

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

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

" In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers. "

" A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. "

" Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. "