Quotes from Eduardo Galeano

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

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

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.