"Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says: the body is a business.
The Body says: I am a fiesta."
" The food of the minority is the hunger of the majority."
"We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the weeding more than the love, and the physical more than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content."
"We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are."
"We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believe death, like money, improves people."
"Advertising enjoins everyone to consume, while the economy prohibits the vast majority of humanity from doing so. The command that everyone do what so many cannot becomes an invitation to crime."
" I don't believe in charity, I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people."
"Hunting Jews has always been an European sport.
Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill."
"Don't you see? There are no doctors in Paradise. Diseases came after the doctors."
"Many little people, in little places, doing little things can change the world."
"Our system is one of detachment; to keep silenced people from asking questions, to keep the judge from judging, to keep the solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces."
"Fear of living, fear of falling, fear of losing your job, your car, your home, your possessions, fear of never having what you ought to have in order to be. In the widespread clamor for public security, imperiled by lurking criminal monsters, the members of the middle class shout louder. They defend order as if they owned it, even though they're tenants overwhelmed by high rents and the threat of eviction."
"Development develops inequality."
"Each day has a story to be told, because we are made of stories."
"The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show."
"If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed on the closet where the system keeps its old disguises."
"Religious disintegration began with colonization."
"Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim."
"In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians; they discovered they lived in America."
- Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan writer, journalist and philosopher