Ryszard Kapuscinski

I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#essay #i #into #more #put

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

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#contempt #feel #feelings #generally #kind

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

#between #citizens #complicated #experience #fabric

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#elements #exploration #first #like #literature

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

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#know #never #our #salvation #striving

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

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#cold #cold war #context #going #interested

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#attentive #high #knowledge #only #people

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#ashamed #cold #cold war #contemporary #contemporary history

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

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#anything #brutal #cold #cold war #cynical

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#experienced #extent #guilt #how #injured