Roman Dmowski quotes

“The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.”
-- Roman Dmowski

Source : "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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“To be a Pole does not mean just to speak Polish or to feel close to other Poles, but to value the Polish nation above all else ... A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad, and must accept every period of the nation's history, both strong and weak.”
-- Roman Dmowski

Source : "Myśli nowoczesnego Polaka". Book by Roman Dmowski, 7th ed., p. 26, 1953.

#Strong Quotes #Mean Quotes #Doe Quotes

“In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.”
-- Roman Dmowski

Source : "Myśli nowoczesnego Polaka". Book by Roman Dmowski, 7th ed., p. 14, 1953.

#Weakness Quotes #Relation Quotes #Strength And Weakness Quotes

“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”
-- Roman Dmowski

Source : "Ukrainian Statehood in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Political Analysis". Book by Viktor Adamsky, 1996.

#Law Quotes #Effort Quotes #Elements Quotes

“The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.”
-- Roman Dmowski

Source : "Walka o prawo i organizacja narodowa", Przegląd Wszechpolski, vol. 9, June 1903.

#Army Quotes #Salvation Quotes #Organized Quotes

“Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411

“The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.”

“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

“Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.”

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.”

“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”

“I won't let you close enough to hurt me.”

Source : Song: Turning Tables, Album: 21, 2011

“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”