Quotes By Ryszard Kapuscinski

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.

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

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.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.