Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Desire
• Struggle
• Exercise
• Liberty
• Survival
• Obstacles
• Manipulation

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• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
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  • Money
  • Struggle

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Live
  • Desire
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• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• My weight has always been a struggle for me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Me
  • Always
  • Struggle

• I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Different
  • Know
  • Desire

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Never

• We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Exercise

• When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Writing
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• It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Forever
  • Struggle
  • Body

• The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

  

  Ed Crane
  • Government
  • Human
  • Liberty

• I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

  

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  • Happy

• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  

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  • Universe
  • Souls
  • Articles

• I think it's fair to say I've always been a boxing fan.

  

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  • Think
  • Always
  • Boxing

• I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Body
  • Enough

• A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Desire
  • Struggle
  • Exercise