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.
ADAM MICHNIKI can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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Both 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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
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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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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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