Eduardo Galeano

“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.”

“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, w...”

“Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.”

“Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.”

“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”

“From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.”