Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
ADAM MICHNIKSometimes 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.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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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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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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America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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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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There were free elections in Bulgaria, where the opposition has just won.
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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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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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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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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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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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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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