Lech Walesa Quotes - Page 3

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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• Capitalism is in crisis.

  Lech Walesa

  Crisis, Capitalism

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• I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

  Lech Walesa

  Taken, Advice, Too Much

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• Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

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  Law, People, Support

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

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  People, Understanding, Feelings

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• [Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

  Lech Walesa

  Would Be, John Paul Ii, Pope

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• One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

  Lech Walesa

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Faster

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• I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

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  Father, Son, Thinking

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• Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

  Lech Walesa

  Authority, Chosen

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• Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

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  Division, Pay, Able

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• Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

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  Feelings, Bitterness, Filled

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• Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

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  Information, Eras, Internet

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• When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

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  Life Lesson, Lying, Hatred

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• I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

  Lech Walesa

  Vision, Knows

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• I don't like to look a man in the eye.

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  Eye, Men, Looks

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• "It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

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  Television, Tvs, Communism

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• If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

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  Lakes, Fishing, Fishes

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• I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

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  Race, Holocaust, Wish

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• As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

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  Responsibility, Fate, Doe

  Lech Walesa's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.

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• I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

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  Wings, Trying, Imagine

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• I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

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  Moving, Politics, Economics

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• I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, World, Helping

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• My health is very much improved.

  Lech Walesa

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• President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

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  President, Poland, Active

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• I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

  Lech Walesa

  Heart, Needs, Overjoyed

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