Eduardo Galeano Quotes

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

Wine, Kiss, Until

The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano

Poor, Walls, Publishers

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
Eduardo Galeano

God, Progress, Almost

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.
Eduardo Galeano

Life, Feeling, Real

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

Between, Poverty, Result

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Eduardo Galeano

Time, Ignorance, Nothing

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
Eduardo Galeano

Quite, Absolutely

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
Eduardo Galeano

Winning, Others, Losing

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.
Eduardo Galeano

Book, Person, Laugh

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

Work, Heart, Joy

We Latins are known for jabbering on.
Eduardo Galeano

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
Eduardo Galeano

Help, Trying, Small

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.
Eduardo Galeano

Time, Good, War

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.
Eduardo Galeano

Mind, Heart, Reality

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Biography

Nationality: Uruguayan

Type: Journalist

Born: September 3, 1940

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