"Disasters are called natural, as if nature were……" — Eduardo Galeano

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

— Eduardo Galeano

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89 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with…
From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When…
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll…
The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death…
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that…
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions…
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can…
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to…
The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from…
A pretty move, for the love of God.

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Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
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There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the… — David Attenborough
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated… — Chinua Achebe
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the… — Jane Austen
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us… — Teresa of Avila
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila

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