Confronting Quote by Susan Faludi

In the '30s and '40s, the search for Hungarian national identity led famously to an alliance with Hitler and the destruction of more than…

— Susan Faludi

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

— Jozsef Mindszenty

It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian…

— Elie Wiesel

Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example…

— Adam Hochschild

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

— Joseph Brodsky

I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to the refugee…

— Martin Schulz

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

I think Hungarians should be more positive; many complain, but if they go to some countries, in South America, people are so poor, yet…

— Judit Polgar

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

— Bela Karolyi

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere…

— Lech Walesa

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the…

— Serge Schmemann

Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects.…

— Csanad Szegedi