Famous Quotes | A population weakened and...

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
Attribution: Ryszard Kapuscinski (b. 1932), Polish journalist. “A Warsaw Diary,” no. 15, Granta (Cambridge, England, 1985).

Categories: Journalist, Survival

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