Quotes by : Ryszard Kapuściński

[…] I began to see Algiers as one of the most fascinating and dramatic places on earth. In the small....

Because it was enough for one of those favorites of His Distinguished Highness to issue a thoughtless....

This is natural: one must read Herodotus's book-and every great book-repeatedly; with each reading it....

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door....

I want to defend Ben Bella just as I am going to defend Boumedienne. Ben Bella was not the 'demon' that....

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it....

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will....

Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappy–lonely....

Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely,....

To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage points.....