Eduardo Galeano Quotes

It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I've had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

History is simply man’s desperate bid to give substance to his most visionary dreams.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

Nothing human is foreign to us

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.