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

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands..

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….

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over..

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

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian com….

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain….

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….

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal….

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 Russi….

Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fas….

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 gr….

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….

In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the li….

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

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

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

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

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession..

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 liter….

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..