Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeanowas an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left"...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth3 September 1940
CityMontevideo, Uruguay
CountryUruguay
crazy military world
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy?
desire
I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
war world culture
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
memories wind sailor
For sailors who love the wind, memory is a good port of departure.
soccer football kissing
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.
powerful world wealth
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.
believe destiny men
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.
military war names
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
soccer sleep grandchildren
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
media hands trends
...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.
development inequality
Development develops inequality.
past scrapbooking remember
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
way world upside-down
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?
coffee law fiction
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