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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

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world. — Eduardo Galeano

We Latins are known for jabbering on. — Eduardo Galeano

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' — Eduardo Galeano

Development develops inequality. — Eduardo Galeano

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

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

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. — 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

If women were necessary, God would have one. — Eduardo Galeano

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture. — Eduardo Galeano

Don't you see? There were no doctors in Paradise. Disease came after doctors. — Eduardo Galeano

The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority. — Eduardo Galeano

The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them farewell from the platform, waving a handkerchief — Eduardo Galeano

It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them. — 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 this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. — Eduardo Galeano

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. — Eduardo Galeano

Memory. My poison, my food. — Eduardo Galeano

The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames. — Eduardo Galeano

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat — Eduardo Galeano

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk. — Eduardo Galeano

Grown on a grand scale, sugar spreads its blight on a grand scale and today unemployment and poverty are these islands' permanent guests. — Eduardo Galeano

The walls are the publishers of the poor. — Eduardo Galeano

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

Other versions, however, insist the 'but' was snuck in. She sang: 'I am black and I am beautiful. — Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. — Eduardo Galeano

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line. — Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way. — Eduardo Galeano

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it. — Eduardo Galeano

Why are some walls so loud and others mute? — Eduardo Galeano

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises. — Eduardo Galeano

Lying in the sun, he follows the unhurried paths of seagulls and sailboats, the azure breeze, the ebb and flow of foam on the water and in the air. — Eduardo Galeano

There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery. — Eduardo Galeano

If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason — Eduardo Galeano

Is the prosperity of a class really identifiable with the well-being of a country? — Eduardo Galeano

Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote. — Eduardo Galeano

A pretty move, for the love of God. — 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

Hunting Jews has always been a European sport.
Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill. — Eduardo Galeano

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

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. — Eduardo Galeano

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me. — Eduardo Galeano

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight? — Eduardo Galeano

We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are. — Eduardo Galeano

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. — 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

The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life. — Eduardo Galeano

We are all mortals until the first kiss and te second glass of wine. — Eduardo Galeano

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

Religious disintegration began with colonization. — Eduardo Galeano

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

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

Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies. — Eduardo Galeano

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it — Eduardo Galeano

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there. — Eduardo Galeano

All that exists is the temple. In this sacred place, the only religion without atheists puts its divinities on display. — Eduardo Galeano

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin. — Eduardo Galeano

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

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are — Eduardo Galeano

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi. — Eduardo Galeano

Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs
but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints. — Eduardo Galeano

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano

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

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. — Eduardo Galeano

All I know is this: art is art, or it's shit — Eduardo Galeano

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day — Eduardo Galeano

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

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 — Eduardo Galeano

I still have things to do. I met up with the stars, but I could not count them. I drew water from the well, but I could not offer it. — Eduardo Galeano

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart — Eduardo Galeano

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

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. — Eduardo Galeano

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge. — Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. — Eduardo Galeano

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. — Eduardo Galeano