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
country thinking people
The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!
believe people answers
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
country numbers people
Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?
sea flames people
The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.
war struggle people
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
people world poverty
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
respect believe people
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
people world small-places
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
beauty became blossoms history joy sad soccer sports torn voyage
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
above america condemned intimate latin obsessed
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
helping others perhaps writer
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
owners
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
defend human nature united
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
against competition difficult perfect says
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.