If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
ADAM MICHNIK
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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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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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 real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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