Jerzy Buzek quotes

Jerzy Buzek quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.”
-- Jerzy Buzek

Source : "Quotes on the death of Vaclav Havel". The Guardian, December 18, 2011.

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“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”
“There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.”
“Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).”
“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”
“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...”

Source : Celia Rees (2010). “Witch Child”, p.8, A&C Black
“Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.”

Source : "Quotes on the death of Vaclav Havel". The Guardian, December 18, 2011.
“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”
“If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”
“The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.”
“The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.”

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