Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
ADAM MICHNIKBoth men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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