"Every two weeks, a language dies. The world……" — Eduardo Galeano
"Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts."
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Eduardo Galeano
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89 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano has 89 quotes on this site.
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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
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Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with…
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From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When…
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In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
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It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll…
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The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death…
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The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that…
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions…
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Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can…
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To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to…
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from…
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A pretty move, for the love of God.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
— Peter Abelard
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All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in…
— John Dickinson
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It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the…
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