Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan writer, novelist, intellectual and journalist who is counted among the pre-eminent left wing thinkers from South America, due to his considerable body of work compiled over several decades. Galeano started working while he was still a teenager. Galeano’s first major job was as an editor of a magazine ‘Marcha’ which had number of South American intellectuals among its contributors. Galeano fled from Uruguay after the military coup of 1973 and continued to work in Argentina, even though some of his most important works were banned by right wing governments. He was a highly influential journalist and his novels became equally popular. Two of the most famous ones are ‘Open Veins of Latin America’ and ‘Memory of Fire Trilogy’, which dealt with the subject of colonialism in the Americas. His books have been translated to several languages and have been read by thousands of people all across the world. His writings and books are still followed by many especially those who wish to gain insights about South America. We have compiled Eduardo Galeano's best quotes from his articles, writings and books on several subjects. Have a peek at some of Eduardo Galeano's famous quotations and sayings on idol, books, soccer, charity, nostalgia, memory, capitalism, America, desire, truth, beauty, democracy, millitary and violence.
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.
For sailors with a desire for wind, memory is a good port of departure.
Eduardo Galeano
Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.
Eduardo Galeano
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
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The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
Those who make objectivity a religion are liars. they are scared of human pain. They dont want to be objective, it's a lie: they want to be objects, so as not to suffer.
Eduardo Galeano
The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
Eduardo Galeano
Religious disintegration began with colonization.
Eduardo Galeano
Here," an old sugar worker told me, "the people have a great love for martyrs--but only after they're dead. Before, there's nothing but complaints.
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.
Eduardo Galeano
Cuba,” he said in his resounding defense plea, “continues to be a producer of raw materials. We exhort sugar to import candy, we export hides to import shoes, we export iron to import plows.
Eduardo Galeano
Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin.
