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Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Richness in the world is a result of other people’s poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

– Eduardo Galeano

Always in all my books I’m trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown – and the pettiness of the big.

– Eduardo Galeano

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

– Eduardo Galeano

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

– Eduardo Galeano

In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.

– Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That’s their way.

– Eduardo Galeano

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

– Eduardo Galeano

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it’s plenitude.

– Eduardo Galeano

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

– Eduardo Galeano

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

– Eduardo Galeano

I remember that – you know, I didn’t receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

– Eduardo Galeano

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

– Eduardo Galeano

Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

– Eduardo Galeano

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

– Eduardo Galeano

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi – but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I’m doomed to be a writer.

– Eduardo Galeano

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

– Eduardo Galeano

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’ And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.

– Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil – this is clear.

– Eduardo Galeano

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It’s not there.

– Eduardo Galeano

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

– Eduardo Galeano

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.

– Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: ‘Tell me! Tell me!’ The stories choose me.

– Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

– Eduardo Galeano

From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.

– Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

– Eduardo Galeano

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 the U.S.

– Eduardo Galeano

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

– Eduardo Galeano

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

– Eduardo Galeano

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

– Eduardo Galeano

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

– Eduardo Galeano

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