Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

About Eduardo Galeano:

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".
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The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

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It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

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The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?

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A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

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Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

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... es una misiva de amor. Abrila y me la leés. Te regalo el placer de romper el sobre. " - La Canción de Nosotros.

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I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

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Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs.

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Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.

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¿Qué decir de la gratitud que América Latina debe a la Coca-Cola, que cobra carísimas licencias industriales para proporcionarles una pasta que se disuelve en agua y se mezcla con azúcar y gas?

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Me gusta la gente sentipensante, que no separa la razón del corazón. Que siente y piensa a la vez. Sin divorciar la cabeza del cuerpo, ni la emoción de la razón

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The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

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And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

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Los puñetazos del corazón contra el pecho. Dos golpes: estoy libre, estoy vivo. Esa necesidad de caminar en cualquier dirección y sin plazo; caminar porque sí, porque quiero, porque se me da la gana. La libertad.

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No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

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Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fuera cosa de sentido común y justo de toda justicia y derecho de propiedad privada, que hace al hombre dueño de la mujer. Pero ninguno, ninguno, ni el...

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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight.

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I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.

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Viva donde viva, viva como viva, viva cuando viva, cada persona contiene a muchas personas posibles, y es el sistema de poder, que nada tiene de eterno, quien cada día invita a salir a escena a nuestros habitantes más jodidos, mientras impide que l...

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I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of th...

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Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

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Author Bio

  • NameEduardo Galeano
  • DescriptionUruguayan writer
  • AliasesEduardo Hughes Galeano; Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
  • BornSeptember 3, 1940
  • DiedApril 13, 2015
  • CountryUruguay
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsStig Dagerman Prize