Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Shame

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Criticize

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Senate

• Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Invite

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

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Careful

• 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.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independence, Leading

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

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Contempt, Order

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Passion

• He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enemies

• 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.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fact

• I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember

• Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in News

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Russia

• I’m trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying

• I’ll tell you what colonial experience is.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Experience

• Readership was high, and very attentive. It wa attentives people’s only source of knowledge about the world.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Source

• 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

  Topics in Experience

• Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers – there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Correspondent

• People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

Ryszard Kapuscinski (35)

Birth:	4th March, 1972
Death:	23rd January, 2007
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

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Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation.

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