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
military war names
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
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.
information purpose torture
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
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.
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
punishment crime unforgivable
Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.
wine who-we-are made
If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are
football secret world
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
heart writing reality
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.
charity helping solidarity
Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.
thinking messi
I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.
jobs political lines
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.