Eduardo Galeano Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Top Down, Challenges, Charity

  "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.

• I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Rain, Flower, Fall

• Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Dream, Media, Hands

• There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  "Open Letter to Joseph Stiglitz, Time to Start 'Re-writing the Rules,' Instead of 'Playing the Old Game!' - Part 2" by Quenby Wilcox, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2016.

• The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its masters, country by country. We are entering times of rebellion and change. There are those who believe that destiny rests on the knees of the gods; but the truth is that it confronts the conscience of man with a burning challenge.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Latin, Believe

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.261, NYU Press

• The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, Breathing, Punishment

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