Top 53 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

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

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

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

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.