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.
ADAM MICHNIKI 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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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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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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