The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. Eduardo Galeano More Quotes by Eduardo Galeano More Quotes From Eduardo Galeano The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Eduardo Galeano division-of-labor losing winning If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises. Eduardo Galeano goes-on sleep past Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war. Eduardo Galeano real soccer war I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past Eduardo Galeano scrapbooking remember past Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it Eduardo Galeano eye play soccer Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced. Eduardo Galeano heart writing reality A pretty move, for the love of God. Eduardo Galeano god-love moving The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day Eduardo Galeano coffee law fiction I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric. Eduardo Galeano prehistoric I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. Eduardo Galeano balls games soccer This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. Eduardo Galeano torture heart joy And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. Eduardo Galeano kissing football soccer The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. Eduardo Galeano grandchildren sleep soccer Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf. Eduardo Galeano unforgivable punishment crime We Latins are known for jabbering on. Eduardo Galeano known latin The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it. Eduardo Galeano running soccer sports A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world. Eduardo Galeano space nostalgia world From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The more concentrated is power, the fewer opportunities there are to move. Space for change, space for freedom to implement change is then very narrow; very small. Eduardo Galeano powerful country moving There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world. Eduardo Galeano secret football world What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there. Eduardo Galeano apple most scene bible
