Ryszard Kapuściński Quotes

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian O...

Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappy–lone...

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, re...

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtles...

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part o...

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of jo...

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading i...

To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage po...

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one wi...

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principl...

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immens...

I want to defend Ben Bella just as I am going to defend Boumedienne. Ben Bella was not the 'demon' t...

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

The witch is a dangerous person. Neither his appearance nor his behaviour betray his satanic nature....

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more ac...

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our do...

[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small...

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but t...

In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place beca...

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only corre...

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many cr...