238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

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.

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

A pretty move, for the love of God.

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

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?

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.