The threat to Russia isn’t liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can’t be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient. Adam Michnik Read Quote
Why am I such a Euro-enthusiast? Because I knew it was an anchor of democracy. Adam Michnik Read Quote
Politics is the art of achieving political goals – of achieving what is possible in a given situation – that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits. Adam Michnik Read Quote
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Adam Michnik Read Quote
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime. Adam Michnik Read Quote
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election. Adam Michnik Read Quote
If you’re powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. Adam Michnik Read Quote
I think it’s always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it’s very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently. Adam Michnik Read Quote
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. Adam Michnik Read Quote
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Adam Michnik Read Quote
