Quotes of Ryszard Kapuściński

“ Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will perish when he does. This is when it seems everyone wants to write a book. Singers and football players, politicians and millionaires. And if they themselves do not know how, or else lack the time, they commission someone else to do it for them...engendering this reality is the impression of writing as a simple pursuit, though those who subscribe to that view might do well to ponder Thomas Mann's observation that, 'a writer is a man for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Writing

“ Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. ”

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Appraise

“ 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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Appraise

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

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Crisis

“ Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ”

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Compel

“ Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ”

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Careful

“ 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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Constantly

“ 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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Covered

“ Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. ”

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Cease

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

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Crisi

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

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Demolish

“ 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. ”

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Dark

“ 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. ”

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Dim

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

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Deliverance

“ 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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Development

“ 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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Delicious

“ 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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Destroyed

“ 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… ”

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Debilitating

“ Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. ”

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Demonic

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

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Example

“ 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… ”

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Exercise

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

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Effort

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

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Endure

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

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Exterminate

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

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Eradicate

“ 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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Economic

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

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Endeavor

“ 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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Endeavor

“ 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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Expending

“ 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. ”

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Quotes of Ryszard Kapuściński - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

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

“ Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ”

“ 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. ”

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

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“ 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. ”