Portugal

🇵🇹Cristiano Ronaldo

Sports

b. 1985

"It bothers me when it's said that Madrid is struggling because Cristiano is struggling. It feels like you are after me. If everyone was at my level, perhaps we would be in first place."

🇵🇹António Damásio

Psychology

b. 1944

"When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life."

🇵🇹José Mourinho

Sports

b. 1963

"As you know Gallas had an unbelievable holiday. I hope he enjoyed it very much in Guadeloupe, which I think is a fantastic place to be on holiday, so he wanted to stay there for a long time."

🇵🇹António de Oliveira Salazar

Politics

1889–1970

"Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians."

🇵🇹António Guterres

Economics

b. 1949

"Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment. We face a direct existential threat."

🇵🇹Isabel dos Santos

Politics

b. 1973

"I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through."

🇵🇹João Magueijo

Science

b. 1967

"The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence."

🇵🇹Ferdinand Magellan

1480–1521

"The first circumnavigation of the globe, Video"

🇵🇹António Lobo Antunes

Medicine

1942–2026

"Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections."

🇵🇹João Sousa

Sports

b. 1989

"There are not many people training in Portugal, the ones available were older like Frederico Gil and Rui Machado and in the north region there was no one like in Lisbon, so I had to go for other solutions"

🇵🇹Salvador Sobral

Music

b. 1989

"We live in a world of disposable music; fast-food music without any content... Music is not fireworks, music is feeling. So let's try to change this and bring music back which is really what matters."

🇵🇹Aristides de Sousa Mendes

Politics

1885–1954

"I would stand with God against man, rather than with man against God."

🇵🇹Alexandre O'Neill

Literature

1924–1986

"Alexandre O'Neill at Poetry International Web"

🇵🇹Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Literature

1919–2004

"Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen at Poetry International Web"

🇵🇹Ricardo Araújo Pereira

Literature

b. 1974

"Camões was an asshole, e o Pessoa was a stupid fuck."

🇵🇹Diogo Morgado

Entertainment

b. 1981

"I’m not the conscious type. I’m not self-aware. I don’t take myself too seriously. I’m just here to try to enjoy because we don’t control anything really."

🇵🇹José Saramago

Literature

magic realism

1922–2010

"Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created."