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The 45 best phrases by Eduardo Galeano, an unforgettable writer

The 45 best phrases by Eduardo Galeano, an unforgettable writer

March 28, 2024

Through the different literary genres, the human being is able to develop, collect and transmit their thoughts, knowledge, opinions and beliefs or those of their environment or culture, or give free rein to their creativity and their emotions.

Literature is one of the arts, with exponents in all cultures. One of the most representative authors of Latin America has been Eduardo Galeano , writer and journalist whose works revolve on diverse subjects, largely linked to the history and tradition of their culture.

This author has left interesting reflections on multiple topics throughout his writings, which is why in this article we present various phrases of Eduardo Galeano, the legendary Uruguayan writer.


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Forty-five reflections by Eduardo Galeano

Below is a series of phrases by Eduardo Galeano on subjects as diverse as love, freedom, feelings or identity.

1. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods, but the truth is that it works, as a burning challenge, on the consciences of men

Our future depends above all on our effort, not on chance or on divine intervention.


2. At the end of the day, we are what we do to change what we are

It is our efforts, our actions, that define us.

3. Each person shines with its own light among all others. There are not two equal fires. There are large fires and small fires and fires of all colors

This phrase reflects that we are all unique and different, with different ways of seeing reality.

4. There is a unique place where yesterday and today they meet and recognize each other and embrace each other. That place is tomorrow

The present will end up being passed, as well as the future the present, with the passage of time.

5. Worship is not the one who reads books. Worship is that which is capable of listening to the other

Sometimes the mistake is made to think that the cult is the one that reads or studies. Actually, he needs to understand the world and what surrounds us.

6. Only fools believe that silence is a void. It is never empty. And sometimes being silent is the best way to communicate

Silence, although it may seem the absence of communication, communicates much more than it seems. What we keep quiet and do not say also reflects a lot of information.


7. Many small people, in their small places, doing small things, can change the world

As little as it may seem what we do, everything adds up to change things.

8. Charity is humiliating because it is exercised vertically and from above; solidarity is horizontal and implies mutual respect

Being supportive means helping the other, considering him or her an equal. To give charity is to look at it from above, with compassion.

10. Hopefully we can have the courage to be alone and the courage to risk being together

This phrase expresses the need to have the courage to take as much risk to have a relationship and fight for it as to be able to be alone.

11. Those who are not prisoners of need, are prisoners of fear: some do not sleep because of the anxiety of having things that they do not have, and others do not sleep in a panic to lose the things they have

Today, our consumer culture encourages us to acquire and maintain goods and services in a constant manner, which can reach obsessive levels.

12. The nascent cyber community finds refuge in virtual reality, while cities tend to become huge deserts full of people, where each one watches over his saint and is each stuck in his own bubble

Today we can see how people are increasingly isolated in their own world, or in networks, without paying attention to what happens in real life.

13. Violence breeds violence, as we know; but it also generates profits for the industry of violence, which sells it as a spectacle and turns it into an object of consumption

Violence is often used as an object and a spectacle.

14. Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, she walks two steps away. I walk ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further. No matter how much I walk I will never reach it. So, for what does the utophy works? For that, it serves to walk

Although utopias and perfection are unattainable, they impel us to fight and to try to reach them, to develop and grow.

15. Do not you have enemies? How not? Did you never tell the truth, nor ever love justice?

We all have enemies, because what we believe and defend, what we do, say or even think will not please everyone and will find opposing positions to it.

16. To not be dumb, you have to start by not being deaf

In order to be free and express ourselves, we must start by ignoring others. We can not ignore what is happening around us.

17. I like sentient people, who do not separate reason from the heart. That feels and thinks at the same time. Without divorcing the head of the body, nor the emotion of reason

We can often meet people who only follow reason or emotion. But it is possible to pay attention to both. This is what leads us to be happy: to be who we are, complete and integrated beings.

18. Free are those who believe, not those who copy, and free are those who think, not those who obey

This phrase aims to stimulate critical thinking and creativity instead of just following the imposed and conform.

19. The demon has a large wardrobe and not only dresses in red

There is no "them" bad. We can find people of all kinds everywhere. Cruelty and hate can appear in anyone regardless of their type of ideology.

20. Motorists are afraid to walk and pedestrians are afraid of being run over

This phrase reflects that we fear what we consider opposed to what we do or live, or simply what we do not know.

21. I believe that we were born children of the days, because every day has a story and we are the stories that we live

Every day of our life, we live new and different experiences that help us to form and develop.

22. If I fell it is because I was walking. And walk worth, although you fall

This phrase pushes us to move forward, it is worth moving forward and persisting in our search for a future.

23. The moral code of the end of the millennium does not condemn injustice, but failure

Often, what is socially criticized is the failure to achieve objectives, sometimes regardless of whether or not failing involves the use of unfair methods that harm others.

24. In a world of plastic and noise, I want to be mud and silence

Today's society is based on superficiality, on appearances, on coldness and on an excessive individuality that leads to isolation.

25. Teaching, is teaching to doubt

We need to be able to be critical of what is proposed to us. We need to learn to think for ourselves and be able to make our own judgments of reality.

26. As you can see, I'm screwed to love. I know it's not enough. There are many of us who walk with broken love, but you have to have the courage to get it out with spoiling and everything

Although they have harmed us, we must be able to overcome them and give the best of ourselves.

27. The first condition to modify reality is to know it

Again, this phrase calls us to pay attention to what surrounds us and to be interested in it if we want to be able to change the world.

28. We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content

We rely heavily on appearances, ignoring what is hidden underneath. This is true for most things, including personal relationships.

29. And today, more than ever, it is necessary to dream. Dream, together, dreams that are desensueñen and in mortal matter embody

Dreaming allows us to visualize what we want to achieve, and strive to achieve it.

30. Memory will save what it's worth. Memory knows more about me than me and she does not lose what deserves to be saved

Under normal conditions we remember what is most important to us. What we think relevant will be remembered, and only the details that we consider insignificant will vanish.

31. The culture of consumption, culture of disconnection, trains us to believe that things happen because

We have lost part of our feeling that things happen thanks to our effort over time.

32. Sometimes the idol does not fall entirely. And sometimes, when it breaks, people devour the pieces

This phrase criticizes the change of opinion of those who at first praise and idolize someone to later criticize or laugh at him when he fails.

33. I let go of the hug, I go out into the street. In the sky, already lightening, the moon is finite. The moon is two nights old. I, a

This phrase reflects the importance of affective relationships, showing how they make us feel as if we were beginning to live.

34. There are many things that are born in one sense and end up living in another

Things do not always go as they seem, but they can take very different paths than we expected.

35. The only thing I know is this: art is art or it's shit

Art is only art when it is created by expressing something. Otherwise, it can not be considered as such.

36. The word political has been so much handled that it means everything and does not mean anything.

The author criticizes the hypocrisy and manipulation of politics, as well as its excessive use, which has made it a controversial and confusing aspect for a large majority of the population.

37. It looked like they were about to fall, but no: when she stumbled, he held her; when he wobbled, she straightened him ... Well grabbed each other, stuck to each other in the vagaries of the world

In this sentence we are told about love, and how the members of a couple support and help each other to develop.

38. Because everyone, all of us, have something to say to others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others

We have all done something in our life, be it good or bad. Nobody is useless.

39. I write for friends that I still do not know. The ones I know are tired of listening to me

The author strives to make others get to know him.

40. Poor children are the ones who suffer most from the contradiction between a culture that leads to consume and a reality that forbids it

Especially those who do not have resources suffer severe consequences derived from the relationship between states of deprivation and the promotion of the consumer society.

41. Groupers, and other fish, are virtuous in the art of changing sex without surgery. The females become males and the males become females with amazing ease; and no one is mocked or accused of treason against the nature or the law of God

This phrase expresses that in nature, aspects such as sex or sexual identity are not motive for mockery or punishment in other species, contrary to what often happens in our own.

42. Is it permissible to confuse the depth of a class with the well-being of a country?

A single social class is not a country, it is not representative. In order to measure well-being, all those who are part of it must be measured.

43. And nothing was wrong, and nothing was strange that my heart had been broken from so much use

Although loving may hurt, this pain is not bad because it derives from what we feel.

44. Poor offenders are the villains of the movie; rich criminals write the script and direct the actors

The author criticizes that we do not look at everyone with the same magnifying glass: the poor with little power are crushed and blamed, while those with great power benefit from it.

45. The best that the world has is in the many worlds that the world contains, the different music of life, its pains and colors: the thousand and one ways of living and saying, believing and creating, eating, working, dancing, play, love, suffer and celebrate

The world is diverse, and in it we find its greatest wealth and beauty.


TOP 20 Eduardo Galeano Quotes (March 2024).


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