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.
ADAM MICHNIKIsrael is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
More Adam Michnik Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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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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Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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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 think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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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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