Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish politician Wladyslaw Bartoszewski.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

Władysław Bartoszewski was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of the Polish underground and participated in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he was persecuted and imprisoned by the communist Polish People's Republic due to his membership in the Home Army and opposition activity.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. — © Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.
I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.
Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.
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