Believe Quote by Norman Davies

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

Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave - a despicable act in Polish culture.

— Andrzej Duda

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over…

— Lech Walesa

“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

“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

“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

Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Norman Davies

Some in the West apparently believe that Poland no longer has its own interests, and that it is all too willing to agree with…

— Lech Kaczynski

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“In Poland there is a meaning to defeat that perhaps is unknown in countries differently situated. Along with a strong sense of unity as…

— Jan Karski

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

— Otto von Bismarck