"There is a lack of critical assessment of……" — Ryszard Kapuscinski
"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 elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
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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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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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