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Adam Michnik

I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Argument Dangerous Ideological Political Religiously Thinking Way
Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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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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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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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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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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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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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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If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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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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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 believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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A 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.
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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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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