I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
ADAM MICHNIKA 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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Poland 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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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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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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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