Best Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
- I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. Elements
- In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by… Accompanies
- Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. Achieve
- In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. Cherish
- The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. Eastern
- There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a… Act
- There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling… Approach
- In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or… Aggression
- Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands. All
- The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured. Defined
- When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself. Challenges
- if reason ruled the world would history even exist? Even Exist
- in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the… All
- Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation. Guidance
- If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over. Crowd
- A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… All
- The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… Africa
- There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal… Alive
- Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in… Ambassador
- Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was… Africa
- People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War. Cold
- We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres. Different Genres
- Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. Alternatives
- I'll tell you what colonial experience is. Colonial
- Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. Attentive