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Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes & Sayings

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35 entries tagged including 4 subtopics.
Last updated Sep 2023

Ryszard Kapuscinski Topics

World War I
Corruption
Oil

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Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anaesthetises thought, blurs vision, corrupts.

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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

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We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres.

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Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

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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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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 foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.

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There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

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The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

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The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

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The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

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The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

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The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

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People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

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Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

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