It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Interpretation
Silence can express thoughts and emotions more deeply than words ever could.
This quote speaks to the profound depth of silence as a form of communication. Eduardo Galeano suggests that silence carries its own meanings and can convey complex feelings and ideas without the need for spoken language, making it a powerful and often overlooked mode of expression in human interactions.
In practice
During a tense meeting, I reminded everyone that sometimes silence can say more than words.
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.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
Golden Ruleβ: βThat which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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