Santamarina Eduardo Quotes

In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. ~ Eduardo Galeano

God weighs a soul on a pair of scales. In one of the dishes is the soul, and in the other, the tears of those who weep for it. If nobody cries, the soul goes down to Hell. If there are enough tears, and they are sufficiently heartfelt, it rises up to Heaven...People who are missed by other people, they are the ones who go to Paradise. Paradise is the space we occupy in other people's hearts. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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

We Latins are known for jabbering on. ~ Eduardo Galeano

Religious disintegration began with colonization. ~ Eduardo Galeano

If thats how it was done, and thats how it had always been done, there had to be a reason ~ Eduardo Galeano

Misery does ever so well in wealthy countries. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

The family has no borders, explains Soboufu Somé of the Dagara people: "Our children have many mothers and many fathers. As many as they wish. ~ Eduardo Galeano

The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists. ~ Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

I strongly believe being mayor is the public post in which you have the greatest opportunity to change peoples' lives for the better. People live in cities, not states or nations. As a mayor, you are connected directly to citizens. ~ Eduardo Paes

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it. ~ Eduardo Chillida

Hunting Jews has always been a European sport.
Now the Palestinians, who never played it, are paying the bill. ~ Eduardo Galeano

Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn't love him. Not because he was a beast or white - I couldn't love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn't feel it. ~ Eduardo C. Corral

The digital revolution has deepened the crisis within representative democracy. But as it forces its demise, it might also dictate its future. Traditional representative democracy within nations is no longer enough. People want more participation and collaboration with their government. ~ Eduardo Paes

this particular category of asshole compounds temerity with obliviousness. ~ Eduardo Sacheri

[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman wanting to be kissed. ~ Eduardo Galeano

I really do believe that mayors have the political position to really change people's lives. ~ Eduardo Paes

He takes a deep breath, and opens the door. In my other life I used to know people like that
they're frightened by the sound of wind through the leaves, they can't bear cockroaches, not to mention policemen, lawyers, even dentists. And yet when the dragon bursts into the clearing, opens its mouth and spits fire, they stand up to them. Calm, cool as an angel. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

However, he began to walk stooped slightly to the left, as though he were being pushed, from within, by a violent gale. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure. ~ Eduardo Chillida

The Crocodile The sun of the Macusi people was worried. Every day there were fewer fish in their ponds. He put the crocodile in charge of security. The ponds got emptier. The crocodile, security guard and thief, invented a good story about invisible assailants, but the sun didn't believe it, took a machete, and left the crocodile's body all crisscrossed with cuts. To calm him down, the crocodile offered his beautiful daughter in marriage. "I'll be expecting her," said the sun. As the crocodile had no daughter, he sculpted a woman in the trunk of a wild plum tree. "Here she is," he said, and plunged into the water, looking out of the corner of his eye, the way he always looks. It was the woodpecker who saved his life. Before the sun arrived, the woodpecker pecked at the wooden girl below the belly. Thus she, who was incomplete, was open for the sun to enter. (112) ~ Eduardo Galeano

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. ~ Eduardo Galeano

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space. ~ Eduardo Chillida

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle. ~ Eduardo Paes

Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities. ~ Eduardo Paes

It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them. ~ Eduardo Galeano

Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. ~ Eduardo Galeano

I was so close to you that I feel cold near others. ~ Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega

He was evil, and he didn't know it. He didn't know what evil was. That is to say, he was pure evil. ~ Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Lady Gough's Book of Etiquette, published in 1863, established some of the social commandments of the times: one must avoid, for example, the intolerable proximity of male and female authors on library shelves. Books could only stand together if the authors were married, such as in the case of Robert and Elizabeth Browning. ~ Eduardo Galeano