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.
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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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