I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
ADAM MICHNIKThe real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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Although there is a strong desire for freedom in the countries of Eastern Europe, there is no democratic tradition, so that the risk of anarchy and chaos continues to exist.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally.
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After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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