In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, . . . or by relentless labour; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible. . .
Source: A Warsaw Diary, in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski, ( -1932), Polish reporter, writer; His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia.