Ryszard Kapuscinski

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And that the value of the writing is not in what you publish but in its consequences. If you set out to describe reality, then the influence of the writing is upon reality.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Even though you can destroy a man, destroying him does not make him cease to exist. On the contrary, if I can put it this way, he begins to exist all the more. These are paradoxes no tyrant can deal with. The scythe swings, and at once the grass starts to grow back. Cut again and the grass grows faster than ever. A very comforting law of nature.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski