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.
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.