238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

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

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.