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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.

Adam Michnik

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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Doing Done Life Love Society Start Wisdom
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Different Ethics Politics World
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Blind Deaf Deal Outside Powerful Signal
We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
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Appointment Current Deputy Justice Kaczynski Minister People Position President Prison Sentenced
I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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Accept Country Cowboy Culture Domination Longer Power Thinking World
We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.
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They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.
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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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Believe Freely Question Speak Speech Tell Truth
I can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Cease Citizen Property Real State Struggle
Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.
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Appealing Apply Clever Democracy Election Figure Machine Noble Old Person Sometimes
This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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