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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.

Adam Michnik

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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Act Believe Decently Humane Humanely Open Society
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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Authoritarian Country People Prefer Regime Society Thinking Today
In a democracy, the government is a reflection of society because people are elected.
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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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The call to finally clean house is a propaganda tool of the right, which tolerates the leftists who it condemns.
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Call Clean Condemn Finally House Leftist Propaganda Right Tolerate Tool
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
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Cease Citizen Property Real State Struggle
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Blind Deaf Deal Outside Powerful Signal
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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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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Appealing Apply Clever Democracy Election Figure Machine Noble Old Person Sometimes
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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We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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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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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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Again Better never Say
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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I can’t remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I’m not an idiot.
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