Eduardo Galeano Quotes

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Every country has a part that is undeveloped.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

In the first phase of economic development you have rising inequality.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

There is a lot of inequality in Colombia. We have to correct that.

Wealth inequality has increased.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.