238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Richness in the world is a result of other people’s poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others – the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

A unipolar world – one with only one power – makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

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

I can’t sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat.

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

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it’s plenitude.

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

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'