Top 115 Quotes & Sayings by Lech Walesa
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
There is something of the warrior in me.
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
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.
I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
I had my own battle tactics.
I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.
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.
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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!
I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
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.
Capitalism is in crisis.
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.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
People are most important.
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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.
One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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.
We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow.
I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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?
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.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
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.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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.
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.
Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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