Quotes By Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

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.

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.

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.