238 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

...porque somos todos mortales hasta el primero beso y el segundo vaso, y eso lo sabe cualquiera, por poco que sepa.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Our part of the world, known today as Latin America, was precocious: it has specialized in losing ever since those remote time when Renaissance Europeans ventured across the ocean and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations.

In un certo senso la destra ha ragione quando s'identifica con la tranquillità e con l'ordine: è l'ordine della quotidiana umiliazione della maggioranza, ma è pur sempre un ordine; è la tranquillità dell'ingiustizia che continua a essere ingiusta e della fame affamata.

Y ya sé, también, porque me enteré, porque yo no sabía. que no estamos peleando solamente por un montón de cosas muy grandes y muy nobles. No es que quiera nada para mi, no. Es mucho más sencillo. Y fijate si sería bruto, digo yo, lo que demoré en enterarme. Años, años sin saber que también se podía estar en esto por la sonrisa triste de una mujer y por la cintura libre de revólver.

... es una misiva de amor. Abrila y me la leés. Te regalo el placer de romper el sobre. " - La Canción de Nosotros.

Until a few years ago, a man who had no debts was considered virtuous, honest, and hardworking. Today, he’s an extraterrestrial. Whoever does not owe, does not exist. I owe, therefore I am. Whoever is not credit-worthy deserves neither name nor face. The credit card is proof of the right to exist; debt, something even those who have nothing have. Every single person or country that belongs to this world has at least one foot caught in this trap.

The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.

Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.