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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Adam Michnik

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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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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Accept Country Cowboy Culture Domination Longer Power Thinking World
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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Appointment Current Deputy Justice Kaczynski Minister People Position President Prison Sentenced
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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Communist Difference Face Former Human Main Member Party Prague Revolution Socialism Spring Velvet
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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Country Final French Judging King Question Revolution Treason
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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Authoritarian Country People Prefer Regime Society Thinking Today
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 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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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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Dark Democracy Dictatorship Doorbell Freedom Guarantee Rule Safe Street Terror
The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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Call Clean Condemn Finally House Leftist Propaganda Right Tolerate Tool
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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Black Color Democratic Equality Notion Reject World
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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Anarchy Continue Country Democratic Desire Freedom Strong Tradition
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Cease Citizen Property Real State Struggle
We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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