Do you know any of Eduardo Galeano’s phrases? He left us, but he certainly wasn’t indifferent at all.
This Uruguayan writer, author of international titles such as Memory of Fire (1986) and The Open Veins of Latin America (1971), reflected on the world, love, religion, football and everything related to the present.
- Today.
- With the desire to pay homage to him and his career.
- We bring 21 famous sentences by Eduardo Galeano.
- Reflecting the spirit of the great thinker he was and his commitment to the world.
1- The world is mainly divided between the unworthy and the outraged, and everyone knows which side they want or can be on.
2- If I fell it was because I was walking, and walking is worth it even if you fall.
3- Remember: from Latin re-cordis, come back by the heart?
4- In order not to be silly, you must not be deaf first.
5- Only fools think silence is a void. No, we’re never in a vacuum. And sometimes the best way to communicate is silence.
6- However, America is, for the world, nothing but the United States: we inhabit at most a South America, a second-class America, of nebula identification. This is Latin America, the region of open veins.
7- If the weather were a bank, they would have saved you
8- For me, the only trustworthy certainties are those that have breakfast every morning.
9- Is there a so-called international community?
10- Charity is humiliating because it is exercised vertically and from top to bottom; solidarity is horizontal and implies mutual respect.
11- The moral code of the end of the millennium does not condemn injustice, but failure.
12- Violence engenders violence, as we know; but it also generates profits for the violence industry, which sells it as a spectacle and turns it into merchandise.
13- I think we were born children of the day, because every day has a history and are we the stories in which we live?
14- Love can be caused by dropping a handful of “love me” powder, as if by negligence, into a coffee, soup or drink. It can be caused, but it cannot be stopped. Neither holy water nor wafer dust stops it; nor the garlic cede, which in this case is useless. Love is deaf to the divine word and spells of witches. There is no government decree that can with him, nor a potion capable of avoiding it, even if traders proclaim, in the markets, infallible drinks with guarantee and everything.
15- Poor versus poor, as always: poverty is a very short cover, and everyone pulls on your side.
16- Walls are the press of the poor
17- Hunger eats fear. Fear of silence stuns the streets, fear threatens: if you love you will get sick with AIDS, if you smoke you will get sick with cancer. If you breathe, you will be contaminated; if you drink, you’ll have an accident. If you eat, you will get cholesterol; if he speaks, he’ll lose his job. If you walk, there will be violence; if you think, you’ll have anxiety. If you doubt it, there will be madness; If you feel, you’ll be alone.
18. Poor children suffer the most from the contradiction between a culture that teaches consumption and a reality that forbids them.
19- History is a prophet looking back: for what it was, and against what it was, it announces what it will be.
20- Utopia is on the horizon. I approach two steps, she walks away two steps, I walk ten and the horizon runs ten steps. As much as I walk, I’ll never catch up with him, what’s utopia for?It serves this purpose: so that it does not stop walking.
These are 20 famous sentences of Eduardo Galeano, rest in peace and thank you for your example that inspired us so much.