Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless and beautiful than that used by conformist writers to greet the twilight. - Eduardo Galeano
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 - Eduardo Galeano
The walls are the publishers of the poor. - Eduardo Galeano
Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies. - Eduardo Galeano
Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God's mysterious designs. - Eduardo Galeano
I am not particularly interested insaving time; I prefer to enjoy it. - Eduardo Galeano
Me gusta la gente sentipensante, que no separa la razón del corazón.Que siente y piensa a la vez.Sin divorciar la cabeza del cuerpo, ni la emoción de la razón - Eduardo Galeano
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. - Eduardo Galeano
¿Qué decir de la gratitud que América Latina debe a la Coca-Cola, que cobra carísimas licencias industriales para proporcionarles una pasta que se disuelve en agua y se mezcla con azúcar y gas? - Eduardo Galeano
... es una misiva de amor. Abrila y me la leés. Te regalo el placer de romper el sobre. " - La Canción de Nosotros. - Eduardo Galeano
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. - Eduardo Galeano