238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

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.

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

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

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

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

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

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.