"Our defeat was always implicit in the victory……" — Eduardo Galeano
"Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison."
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89 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano
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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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Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on…
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So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are…
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" ... What if?" Through the alchemy of those two words, something new comes into the world.
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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
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