Differences Quote by Ryszard Kapuscinski

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that…

— Olga Tokarczuk

I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Unfortunately, as hate speech has proliferated, no one in Poland has been held responsible. The police take people's statements and dismiss them. This tacit…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable…

— Adam Michnik

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

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

The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian…

— Norman Davies

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“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

“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 remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile,…

— Irena Klepfisz

“To begin with, we have to be more clear about what we mean by patriotic feelings. For a time when I was in high…

— Noam Chomsky