Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Uruguay, Journalist
September 3, 1940 – April, 13, 2015.

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (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".

Also known as Writer, Novelist

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
- People
- Believe
- Charity
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
- World
- Live
- Culture

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
- Science
- Law
- Coffee
The Nobodies; Cied in Mother Jones Magazine (1991) The Book of Embraces. March-April 1991. p. 71

Eduardo Galeano
- Book
- Mother
- March
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
- World
- Long
- Culture
somos todos mortales hasta el primer beso y el segundo vaso

Eduardo Galeano
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Eduardo Galeano
- Winning