I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
ADAM MICHNIKAs 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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