Eduardo Galeano Quotes - Page 4

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• To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

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  Media, Long, Giving

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.14, NYU Press

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• The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.

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  Men, Spinning Around, Air

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.13, NYU Press

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• 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.

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  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• 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.

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  Writing, Annoyed, Betrayed

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• We Latins are known for jabbering on.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Latin, Known

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• There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Football, Secret, World

  "Throw FIFA Out of the Game" by Dave Zirin, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

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  Soccer, Real, War

  "The World Turns Around a Spinning Ball" by Eduardo Galeano, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2014.

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• I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

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  Soccer, Country, Team

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

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• This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

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  Heart, Joy, Torture

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• A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.

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  Space, World, Nostalgia

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small.

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  Country, Powerful, Moving

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• ...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.

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  Media, Hands, Groups

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• Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.

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  Latin, America, Years

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

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  Art, Stories, Cafes

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• I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

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  Prehistoric

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• 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

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  Coffee, Law, Fiction

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.98, NYU Press

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• A pretty move, for the love of God.

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  Moving, God Love

  "Alan Black on soccer: Sex appeal and economics of soccer" by Alan Black, www.sfgate.com. December 19, 2014.

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• I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

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  Past, Scrapbooking, Remember

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• I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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  Soccer, Games, Balls

  "Social poet captures the beautiful game". Interview with Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. October 9, 2013.

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• His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

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  Soccer, Football, Player

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

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• 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.

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  Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

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• 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.

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  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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• Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

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  Punishment, Crime, Unforgivable

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• Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Eye, Play

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.208, Verso

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• The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

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  Soccer, Sports, Running

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