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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• 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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• The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

  Lech Walesa

  War, Nuclear, Way

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

  Lech Walesa

  Long, Dictator, Should

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Education, Opportunity, Rights

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• I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, World, Helping

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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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• There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

  Lech Walesa

  Legs, Should, Left

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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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• Capitalism is in crisis.

  Lech Walesa

  Crisis, Capitalism

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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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• 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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• One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

  Lech Walesa

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Faster

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  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.

  Lech Walesa

  Life Lesson, Lying, Hatred

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

  Lech Walesa

  Believe, Privacy, I Believe

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

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• I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

  Lech Walesa

  Wings, Trying, Imagine

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• When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

  Lech Walesa

  Block, Fighting, Phones

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• If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

  Lech Walesa

  Lakes, Fishing, Fishes

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• "It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.

  Lech Walesa

  Television, Tvs, Communism

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• The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Reform, Painful

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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.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, War, Struggle

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