Faces Quote by Arnold Beichman

“Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by…

— Olga Tokarczuk

This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work…

— Pope Francis

I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice.

— Norman Davies

For two centuries, Poland suffered constant and brutal attacks. But while Poland could be invaded and occupied, and its borders even erased from the…

— Donald Trump

“But it is not so simple as to merely blame the Communists for Poland's state of denial (of World War II atrocities and heroes)Curiously,…

— Zofia Zaks

As a Jew, even if you were not born in Poland, the very name, Poland, gives rise to a shuddering in your body and…

— Reuven Rivlin

“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded…

— Witold Gombrowicz

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to…

— Marek Belka

“after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we…

— Ian Buruma