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Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
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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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Be careful: They have arms, and no alternatives (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world. (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated. (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
When man meets an obstacle he can’t destroy, he destroys himself (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can’t be answered (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
If reason ruled the world would history even exist? (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we’ll never achieve (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
I’m trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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 (Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes)
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