238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It’s always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

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

Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’ And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.

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.

I like Messi because he doesn’t think he is Messi.

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.