"I'll tell you what colonial experience is." — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"I'll tell you what colonial experience is."
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52 Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never…
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How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act,…
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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as…
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also…
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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric,…
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Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so…
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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there…
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Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you…
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More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to…
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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or…
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial…
— Unknown Author
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
— Paul Robeson
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people…
— Ratan Tata
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth…
— Jeff Cooper
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic…
— Karl Marx
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to…
— Newt Gingrich
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We…
— Abdul Kalam
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally…
— Thomas G. West
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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