Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
ADAM MICHNIKI 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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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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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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