Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.

The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

We know we are on the right path. Our journey is not finished, but we have come a long way.

I'm not happy until I'm going forward and accomplishing goals.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.