238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Development develops inequality.

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

Memory. My poison, my food.

If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.

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.