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Eduardo Galeano

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“As the owners of heaven forbade chocolate to mortals, so the owners of earth forbade it to commoners.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 7
“The results of civilization were surprising: our lives became more secure but less free, and we worked a lot harder.”.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 17
“He discovered or described hundreds of afflictions and cures, and by testing remedies he concluded “Laughter is the best medicine”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 64
“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Galeano (1973) Vagamundo , p. 112
“The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Galeano, in: David Barsamian (2004) Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine. p. 146
“The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as interviewed by Jonah Raskin, "Saying More with Less," Monthly Review, vo. 61, n. 5, October 2009.
“Open Veins’ tried to be a book of political economy, but I didn’t yet have the necessary training or preparation”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed in article (2014). Later in article: "Precisely why Mr. Galeano chose to renounce his book now is unclear. Through his American agent, Susan Bergholz, he declined to elaborate. She said he had gradually grown…
“somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show. Their officials, international technocrats, rule our countries: they are neither presidents nor ministers, they have not been elected, but they decide the level of salaries and public expenditure, investments and divestments, prices, taxes, interest rates, subsidies, when the sun rises and how frequently it rains. However, they don't concern themselves with the prisons or torture chambers or concentration camps or extermination centers, although these house the inevitable consequences of their acts. The technocrats claim the privilege of irresponsibility: 'We're neutral' they say.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Galeano (1991) Professional Life/3 p. 108; As cited in: Paul Farmer (2005) Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.. p. 10
“Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them - will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn't rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn't even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.The nobodies: nobody's children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source