The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Our early history is lost in mist. It seems all we ever did was break rocks and beat each other with clubs.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Historian Richard Nixon knew the vice could be fatal for civilization: “You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“BRIEF HISTORY OF TRADE BETWEEN AFRICA AND EUROPE Hereditary slavery had been around since the times of Greece and Rome and was… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“WALLS The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From morning till night we read, saw, heard: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
