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.
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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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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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They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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 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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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