Eduardo Galeano Quotes

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Eduardo Galeano

Profession : Journalist

Birth : September 3, 1940

Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.

Eduardo Galeano

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.

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

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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

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Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

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In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.

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Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

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Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

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I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

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The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

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There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

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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.

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If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

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

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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.

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This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

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

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I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

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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.

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The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

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