Lech Walesa Quotes

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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

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I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
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When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It’s necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won‘t heal.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
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No minority should climb all over the majority.
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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred – this is the road we have chosen.
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I’m a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wifesometimes.
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I’m a fatalist.
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We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
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Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can’t control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
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My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
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I have a vision, and I know I’m right.
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I risked my life.
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
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I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.
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I am no politician.
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples’ wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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I don’t like to look a man in the eye.
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I can’t imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.
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I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
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