Country Quote by Adam Michnik

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one…

— Tibor Fischer

There is no "ruler" in our country. Poland is a democracy. Our Prime Minister leads the government; the President is fulfilling his tasks. But…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort of thing.…

— Adam Michnik

Even in Poland, where the president is far less powerful than the prime minister, people have a deeper and more atavistic relationship with the…

— Anne Applebaum

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as…

— Garry Kasparov

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

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

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What I find very painful are all these charges that democracy is really shaken in Poland, that we have been switching into some authoritarian…

— Andrzej Duda

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

— Voltaire

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

— Olga Tokarczuk