Eduardo Galeano Quotes

I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that ...

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

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

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and ...

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Marad...

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

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

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hi...

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty...

Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap ...

The StadiumHave you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and list...

Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer play...

Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be...

The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is...

For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

I am not particularly interested insaving time I prefer to enjoy it.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo ca...

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the be...

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would h...

Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime h...

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compli...

The walls are the publishers of the poor.