Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Courage

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

Life

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Life

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

Life

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

Life

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

— Eduardo Galeano

Love

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Life

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

Hope

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

Wisdom

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

— Eduardo Galeano

Success

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Life

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

— Eduardo Galeano

Wisdom