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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.

Adam Michnik

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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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 call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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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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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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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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