Eduardo Galeano, is a renowned Uruguayan writer and journalist. who left a wonderful literary legacy and that lasts to this day. He was born on September 3, 1940 in the Uruguayan city of Montevideo, becoming an undisputed reference in contemporary Latin American literature. His work stands out above all for its poetic prose and deep social reflection.
His phrases loaded with great political criticism are famous, coming to impact both the world of journalism and literature. In the following article we present 50 of the most famous phrases of this universal writer and journalist that will help you reflect and think.
50 phrases to reflect on by Eduardo Galeano
- I hope we can have the courage to be alone, and the courage to risk being together.
- Only fools believe that silence is a void. It is never empty.
- I can not sleep. I have a woman stuck between my eyelids. If she could, I would tell him to leave; but I have a woman stuck in my throat.
- Cult is not one who reads books. Cult is that who is capable of listening to the other.
- Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, she walks away two steps and the horizon moves ten steps further.
- So, for what does the utophy works? For that, It is used for walking.
- There is a single place where yesterday and today meet and recognize and embrace each other. That place is tomorrow.
- Lots of little people, in little places, doing little things, can change the world.
- There are those who believe that destiny rests at the knees of the gods, but the truth is that it works, like a burning challenge, on the consciences of men.
- Violence begets violence, as is known; but it also generates profits for the violence industry, which sells it as a spectacle and turns it into an object of consumption.
- This is a world that domesticates you so that you distrust your neighbor, so that they are a threat and never a promise.
- .Don't you have enemies? How not? Did you never tell the truth, nor did you ever love justice?
- I like thoughtful people, that does not separate the reason from the heart. That feels and thinks at the same time. Without divorcing the head from the body, nor emotion from reason.
- I believe that we must fight against fear, that we must assume that life is dangerous and that that is the good thing about life. so that it does not become a mortal bore.
- The food of minorities becomes in the hunger of the majority.
- The world is divided, above all, between unworthy and indignant, and everyone will know which side they want or can be on.
- The world is a great paradox that revolves in the universe. At this rate, soon the owners of the planet will prohibit hunger and thirst, so that there is no lack of bread or water.
- Tear off my clothes and doubts, lady. Strip me, strip me.
- In order not to be mute, We have to start by not being deaf.
- And today, more than ever, it is necessary to dream. Dream, together, dreams that come to life and incarnate in mortal matter.
- At the end of the day, we are what we do to change who we are.
- Charity is humiliating because it is exercised vertically and from above; the Solidarity It is horizontal and implies mutual respect.
- I believe that we were born children of the days, because every day has a story and we are the stories we live.
- Free are those who believe, not those who copy, and free are those who think, not those who obey.
- Religious disintegration began with colonization.
- The world is organized by the war economy and the culture of war.
- Compete against silence it's hard, because silence is a perfect language, the only language that says something without words.
- Some authors consider that they are chosen by God. I do not. I was chosen by the devil, that's clear.
- Food of the minority is the hunger of the majority.
- progress develops inequality.
- Bacteria and viruses They were the most effective allies.
- There is nothing more orderly than a cemetery.
- The goal is the football orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an increasingly rare occurrence in modern life.
- Jew hunting has always been a European sport. Now the Palestinians, who had never played, They are paying the bill.
- No story is silent. No matter how much they burn it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth about it.
- If the grape is made of wine, then maybe it's the words those that say what we are.
- Indignation must always be the response to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
- Disasters are called “natural”, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
- Impunity requires forgetfulness.
- Development is a journey with more castaways what sailors.
- The powerThey say it's like a violin. It is taken with the left and touched with the right.
- Writing is a wonderful and labor-intensive adventure: those words run and they try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
- The oldest treatise on education It was the work of a woman.
- The memory She is imprisoned in the museums and does not have an exit permit.
- The created machines invite us to die to help us live.
- Communist bureaucrats become businessmen. That's why they had studied "Capital": to live off his interests.
- We denounce all men whose selfishness causes the misfortune of others.
- we want to create a new world. We refuse to choose between hell and purgatory.
- In the realm of boredom, good manners They prohibit everything that routine imposes.
- The law of reality is the law of power. So that reality is not unreal, those in power tell us, the morality of being immoral.
- It seems that he lies, because it steals truth from words.
- Beneath the apparent stupidity, there is real stupidity.