Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

• Energy
• Struggle
• Poverty
• Achieve
• Economic
• Strive
• Relentless

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Energy
  • Struggle
  • Poverty