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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.

Adam Michnik

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 real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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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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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A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France – just think of Le Pen – and even in Finland and Sweden.
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