"First you destroy those who create values. Then……" — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric."
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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