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.’
ADAM MICHNIKI believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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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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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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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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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 consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
ADAM MICHNIK