There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
ADAM MICHNIKDo 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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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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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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