Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
ADAM MICHNIKPoland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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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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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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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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I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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