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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
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
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 not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
— 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 martyrsbut only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints. — Eduardo Galeano
I am not particularly interested insaving 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
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
— 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
