“WORD SMUGGLERS Yang Huanyi, whose feet were crippled in infancy, stumbled through life until the autumn of the year 2004, when she… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The slave is a living tool, just as a tool is an inanimate slave. Hence” — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by… — 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
