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Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwarðo ɣaleˈano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a 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".

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Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

Activities, Art, Laughter, Long, Serious

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Greatness, Machismo, Possible, Racism, Rainbow, Terribly

Schools teach ignorance.

Ignorance, Knowledge, School, Schools, Teach

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Fear, Information, Purpose, Torture

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Built, Business, Prison, Prisons, Suffering

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.

Grandchildren, Laughs, Showers, Sleep, Soccer

Development develops inequality.

Development, Inequality, Develops

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product. "

Building, Convenient, Criminals, Growth, Plane, Views

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they owed allegiance to a King and Kingdom from another world and a God from another sky, and that this God had invented the guilty and the dress, and had sent to be burnt alive who worships the Sun the Moon the Earth and the Rain that wets it.

Allegiance, America, Burnt, Kings, Moon, Rain

Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?

Countries, Country, Earn, Live, Numbers, People

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

Answers, Believe, Believes, Givers, People, World

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.

Divorced, Heart, Mainly, Read, Thinking, Writing

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

Belong, Coffee, Day, Fiction, Haiti, Law

Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But 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.

Concentration, Dream, Dreaming, Hands, Largely, Media

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

Atoms, Bird, Human, Stories, Told

No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

History, Ignorance, Lying, Matter, Mouths, Refuses

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.

Big, Dirty, Hands, Kings, Money, Powerful

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.

Annoyed, Betrayed, Lives, Translations, Writing

In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

Faith, Interesting, Losing, Mean, Political, Revitalization

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

Cause, Forward, Lying, Steps, Two, Utopia

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