Lech Walesa Quotes
Top 76 wise famous quotes and sayings by Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
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?
We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.
I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs.
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.
People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.
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.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.
We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.
"It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell.
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 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.
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalisation is on the horizon.
Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.