Eduardo Galeano's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 23 votes from people: Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty. · In the end, we are what we do to change what we are. · We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass.. (Updated Nov 16, 2018.)
From Open Veins of Latin America to The Book of Embraces: Galeano's most quoted short lines, with the book or interview they come from.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 11
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Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty.
The Book of Embraces, "The Nobodies".
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In the end, we are what we do to change what we are.
The Book of Embraces, "Celebration of Contradictions/2".
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass.
The Book of Embraces (1989).
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Power is like a violin: you pick it up with the left and play it with the right.
Days and Nights of Love and War (1978).
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The international division of labour means that some countries specialise in winning and others in losing.
Open Veins of Latin America (1971), opening lines.
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6
Consumer society: a prodigious container full of nothing.
"Dictionary of the New World Order", published in El País in 1991.
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The nobodies: the children of nobody, the owners of nothing.
The Book of Embraces, "The Nobodies".
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Is it legitimate to confuse the prosperity of one class with the well-being of a country?
Open Veins of Latin America (1971).
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I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is vertical: it goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal.
Interview with David Barsamian for The Progressive (collected in Louder Than Bombs, 2004).
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Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
He said it in his May 2013 interview with Democracy Now!
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11
Democracy is a luxury of the north. The south is allowed the show.
The Book of Embraces, "World Map/2".
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