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.
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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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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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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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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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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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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