I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
ADAM MICHNIKI consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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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 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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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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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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