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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• I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Enemy, Communism

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  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.

  Lech Walesa

  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.

  Lech Walesa

  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.

  Lech Walesa

  Feelings, Bitterness, Filled

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

  Lech Walesa

  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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• This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nails, Coffins

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

  Lech Walesa

  President, Poland, Active

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• I want to light the lights of patriotism.

  Lech Walesa

  Light, Patriotism, Want

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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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• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

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  Education, Opportunity, Rights

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• I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

  Lech Walesa

  Real, Believe, Names

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• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

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  Country, War, Struggle

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• Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

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  Long, Dictator, Should

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Responsibility, Fate, Doe

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

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• I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

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  Believe, Privacy, I Believe

  "Lech Walesa: Tech Freedom Fighter". Interview with Julia Scheeres, www.wired.com. June 19, 2002.

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• If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

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  Technology, Order, Europe

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, 15/1990, April 9, 1990.

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