Lech Walesa Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
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“It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.”
-- Lech WalesaSource : Lech Walesa's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.
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“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”
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“We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.”
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“Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.”
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“In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.”
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“We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.”
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“I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.”
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“Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.”
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“Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.”
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“I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.”
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“I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.”
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“I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.”
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“I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.”
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“In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.”
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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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“Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.”
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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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“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.”
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“You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?”
-- Lech WalesaSource : Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 14 Dec. 1988
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“I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.”
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“I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.”
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“The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.”
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“Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.”
-- Lech Walesa
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