Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

• 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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  Travel, Reading, Writing

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• 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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  Real, Judging, Doe

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• A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.

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  Running, Memories, Journey

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• Haz la maleta. Deshacerla, hacerla, deshacerla, hacerla: pasaporte, billete, libro, taxi, aeropuerto, facturación, cerveza, anuncio, escaleras, avión, abrocharse el cinturón, nacer en el aire, vuelo, balanceo, sol, estrellas, espacio, caderas de azafatas paseantes, leer, dormir, nubes, caída de la velocidad del motor, descenso, dar vueltas, aterrizar, tierra, desabrocharse el cinturón, escaleras, aeropuerto, cartilla de vacunación, visado, aduana, preguntas, taxi, calles, casas, gente, hotel, llave, habitación, congestión, sed, alteridad, extranjero, soledad, fatiga, vida.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Book

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• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

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  Average, People, Effort

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.267, Vintage

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• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

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  Iron, Band, Rubber

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• 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.

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  Struggle, Exercise, Years

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• How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

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  Men, Honor, Dresses

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.80, Vintage

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• In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

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  Struggle, Men, White

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

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  Strive, Achieve, Salvation

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• The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

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  Ocean, Reality, Doe

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2001). “The Shadow of the Sun”, p.6, Vintage

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• ¿Cuándo se llega a una crisis? Cuando surgen preguntas que no pueden responderse.

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  Arise, Crisis

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• Aunque un sistema deje de existir en el sentido jurídico o como estructura de poder, sus valores (o antivalores), su filosofía, sus enseñanzas permanecen en nosotros. Rigen nuestro pensamiento, nuestra conducta, nuestra actitud hacia los demás. La situación es una paradoja demoníaca: hemos derribado el sistema pero seguimos siendo portadores de sus genes.

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  Attitude, Philosophy, Teaching

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• Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.

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  Struggle, Men, Desire

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

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  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

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• if reason ruled the world would history even exist?

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  World, Reason, Ifs

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.92, Vintage

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• More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

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  Light, Brightness, Sun

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2016). “The Beginning: Collision, Ghana, 1958”, p.6, Vintage

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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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  Intimate Relationships, Literature, Treats

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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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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  Past, Assessment, Self

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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  Order, Feelings, Needs

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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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  Hate, Patriotic, Differences

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• 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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  Struggle, Energy, Development

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• 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.

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  Funny, Jobs, Two

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2013). “The Soccer War”, p.136, Vintage

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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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  Party, Men, Guilt

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• I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

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  Independence, Three, Months

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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