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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.

Adam Michnik

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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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Kaczynski appointed a judge to the position of deputy justice minister who had once sentenced current President Bronislaw Komorowski to a prison term.
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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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 think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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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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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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