Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
ADAM MICHNIK
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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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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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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