Eduardo Galeano quotes - page 2

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)
The walls are the publishers of the poor. View quote
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The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. View quote
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The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge. View quote
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people. View quote
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Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. View quote
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Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others. View quote
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. View quote
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Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities. (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. View quote
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Human rights pale beside the rights of machines. In more and more cities, especially in the great metropolises of the South, people have been banned. Automobiles usurp human space, poison the air, and frequently murder the interlopers who invade their conquered territory -and no one lifts a finger to stop them. Is there a difference between violence that kills by car and that which kills by knife or bullet?" (p.231) View quote
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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. View quote
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There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear. View quote
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The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy? View quote
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body. View quote
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Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. View quote
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If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. View quote
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