Fighting Quote by Adam Michnik

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of…

— Adam Michnik

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most…

— Adam Michnik

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You…

— Adam Michnik

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

— Adam Michnik

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for…

— Adam Michnik

“I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.”

— 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…

— Adam Michnik

A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But…

— Adam Michnik

Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable…

— Adam Michnik

The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact…

— Adam Michnik

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French…

— Adam Michnik

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

— Adam Michnik