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

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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…

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

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

- Ryszard Kapuscinski