Ryszard Kapuściński's most famous quotes (with the book they come from)
The top 3 according to 95 votes from people: Only children ask important questions and truly want to learn something. · There is such a thing as being infected by travel, and it is essentially an incurable disease. · Morning and dusk are the most pleasant hours in Africa. The sun is not yet burning, or no longer scorching: it lets you exist, it lets you live.. (Updated Oct 15, 2022.)
From The Emperor and Shah of Shahs to The Shadow of the Sun, Lapidaria and Travels with Herodotus: the most quoted sentences by Ryszard Kapuściński on power, travel, Africa and journalism, each with the title of its book.
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Top 16
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Only children ask important questions and truly want to learn something.
Book "Travels with Herodotus", 2004.
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There is such a thing as being infected by travel, and it is essentially an incurable disease.
Book "Travels with Herodotus", 2004.
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3
Morning and dusk are the most pleasant hours in Africa. The sun is not yet burning, or no longer scorching: it lets you exist, it lets you live.
Book "The Shadow of the Sun", 1998.
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4
To practise journalism, above all you must be a good person. Bad people cannot be good journalists.
Interview with Maria Nadotti, in "The Cynic Is Not Suited to This Job", 2002.
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A dictatorship never falls gradually, bit by bit, but always instantly and completely.
Book "Christ with a Rifle on His Shoulder", 1975.
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Countries that do not take in people from the Third World will themselves turn into the Third World.
From the "Lapidaria" series.
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It is never warm at the top. Icy winds blow, everyone stands hunched and has to watch that the neighbour does not push him over the edge.
Book "The Emperor", 1978.
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No palace collapses on its own.
Book "The Emperor", 1978.
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In politics you have to know how to wait. Whoever waits better wins.
Book "Christ with a Rifle on His Shoulder", 1975.
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10
Flowers do not smell for themselves, but always for someone.
Book "Imperium", 1993.
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11
I fear a world without values, without sensitivity, without thought. A world where everything is possible. Because then evil is the most possible.
From the "Lapidaria" series.
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12
When you hurry, you see nothing, you live through nothing, you experience nothing, you do not think!
Book "Lapidarium V", 2002.
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13
Whoever wants to know how much it costs to win a war should look at our cemeteries.
Book "The Soccer War", 1978.
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14
If out of many truths you choose only one and follow it blindly, it will turn into falsehood and you will become a fanatic.
From the "Lapidaria" series.
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An anachronistic system is one that gives old answers to new questions.
From the "Lapidaria" series.
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16
The world is threatened by three plagues: the plague of nationalism, the plague of racism and the plague of religious fundamentalism.
Book "Imperium", 1993.
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