Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes & Quotations

Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

» Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

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

» Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

» Our job is like a baker's work -- his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

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

» We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

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

» Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

» A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles -- whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -- is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

» 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 relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

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