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As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

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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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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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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 still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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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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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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