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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

Adam Michnik

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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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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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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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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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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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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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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The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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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 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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