politicians-from-poland

"Citizens! I apologize for being late, but today's duties do not allow me to be punctual on the radio. But for everything new that our life gives us, it is, above all, the constant increase in the awareness of the power of the people of Warsaw. Every moment, thousands of facts, thousands of phenomena, strengthen faith in the immortal, indestructible forces of the Polish people. Citizens, yesterday a German tank reached the walls of Warsaw; before it could fire, it was destroyed at the city limits, with the help of whom? With the help of the women of Wola! This is national strength, this is the power of the people! Today in Warsaw everyone has the power of spirit, the power of the spirit of perseverance, the power of strength that can survive in any position and make it easier for the army to win!"

"Citizens! Today was a difficult day for Warsaw. Enemy shells hit hundreds of houses. But above all, they hit the castle, they hit the St. John's Cathedral, they hit the Jesuit church. They hit many places dear to our hearts. These barbaric methods of hitting especially churches or national monuments, such as the castle or the Belweder, these barbaric methods, which have nothing to do with war, which are not war, which are bandit methods, must arouse anger! Anger, fierce anger, which will avenge all the wrongs that the people of Warsaw are suffering today. History is inexorable in this respect. It does not matter that they are ruining Warsaw today. Warsaw was once ruined by others, it will be rebuilt, but they are ruining themselves with such methods; history will not forgive the Germans."

"I wanted Warsaw to be great... My colleagues and I drew plans for a great Warsaw of the future. And Warsaw is great. It happened sooner than we thought... And although there are barricades where there were supposed to be parks, although our libraries are burning, although hospitals are burning, Warsaw, defending the honor of Poland, is today at the peak of its greatness and fame!"

"The essence of a democratic state, the essence of the rule of law, is above all a clear and transparent electoral process, including an easy access to polling stations and a lack of exclusion when it comes to being able to vote."

"Christian democracy, in fact, has disappeared from European politics. It is therefore quite understandable that countries like Poland, which still has a strong Catholic culture and community, and resists the current moral revolution, are met with aggressive reactions from the EU, and this aggression will increase until or unless Poland capitulates. I hope it won't."

"It's worth being honest, although it doesn't always pay off. It pays off to be dishonest, but it isn't worth it."

"As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact."

"I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders."

"Priorities, which clearly point out that at the end of the 20th century, as well as at the beginning of the 21st one, the question we will have to ask and answer is the following: in what way we can further contribute to solving such a difficult problem as the conflict prevention in its regional dimension."

"I, a Polish Catholic, belong to a generation that has personal experience of helplessness in the face of evil. I also spent seven months in Auschwitz. Finally, we are linked by an enduring collective feeling of shame for Europeans and for their passiveness and the failure of the European and American tactics of the time."

"For most of us, concentration camps and extermination camps are the culmination of the persecution of the Jews, a devastating symbol of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust. Much more shocking, in my eyes, however, is the calm and calculated origin of the tragedy that was soon to take concrete form in Auschwitz and other extermination camps at a convivial lunch-time meeting at Wannsee in Berlin on 20 January 1942, a meeting that had already come to a close by early afternoon of the same day. The events that took place in those few hours, however, represented an unprecedented case of meticulously organized mass extermination of millions of victims, the birth of a terrifying idea thought up by the minds of educated people in an ostensibly civilized European country with long traditions."

"Fortunately, Poland today complies with the conventions of the civilized world. If chauvinistic or extremist voices are heard anywhere in the world they have to be denounced loudly. We must have the courage to stand against what assaults our sense of honesty and justice. Today, personal courage is necessary to surmount the fear of publicly addressing unpopular subjects. This is why it is necessary to teach young people that it is important to stand by their principles even if there are moments of pain and hardship. We must be careful not to allow any deviation to counteract certain positive patterns of normal behaviour."

"I can say, that no man can judge his own life. So no man can say that he could have done more. The older I get, the greater the certitude I have, that it is the correct, sincere answer. It is possible to expect courage from people and even heroism. But it is necessary to understand the simple fact that they are people."

"From a material perspective, it might not always pay to be honest, but from a moral perspective, it's always the right thing. That applies to a frail person as well as a criminal. This was my guiding principle - both when I was in captivity and after I was released."

"Every person is responsible for his deeds. Christians in the Catholic Church, and not just in Poland, pray for forgiveness for sins of thought and deed, including also the sin of failing to offer help, and of indifference toward evil. Not just wicked deeds or words but also passivity and not getting involved in good deeds are sins. Young people should arrange their lives so that they are content with themselves. And they can achieve satisfaction by knowing that they have acted in a just manner."

"Enmity is incomparably easier than reconciliation. After all, it happens that we feel almost friendly towards an enemy, being able to shift the responsibility for all our misfortunes to him. […] And reconciliation? How can we live amongst the rubble? How to rid oneself of the memory of wrongs? How can we forget the suffering which filled a victim's entire life? […] Reconciliation requires reflection, moral sensitivity, conscience, great spiritual effort. It requires parting from delusions, from the mythology of hatred and seeing – in the old enemy and in oneself – a person under the same heaven."

"Poland will not only deliver food aid, but I guaranteed (Ukrainian Agriculture) Minister Roman Leshchenko that all refugees are safe and have all they need."

"In the event of a failure of another significant (power) source (in Poland), it (Młoty Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant) will protect the system against possible shortages in the power system. Meanwhile, the reservoir created for water storage will also perform retention and recreational functions, thereby contributing to the development of the Kłodzko Valley in which it is located."

"The use of pictures was creeping into the church already in the third century, because the council of Elvira in Spain, held in 305, especially forbids to have any picture in the Christian churches. These pictures were generally representations of some events, either of the New or of the Old Testament, and their object was to instruct the common and illiterate people in sacred history, whilst others were emblems, representing some ideas connected with the doctrines of Christianity. It was certainly a powerful means of producing an impression upon the senses and the imagination of the vulgar, who believe without reasoning, and admit without reflection; it was also the most easy way of converting rude and ignorant nations, because, looking constantly on the representations of some fact, people usually end by believing it. This iconographic teaching was, therefore, recommended by the rulers of the church, as being useful to the ignorant, who had only the understanding of eyes, and could not read writings. Such a practice was, however, fraught with the greatest danger, as experience has but too much proved. It was replacing intellect by sight. Instead of elevating man towards God, it was bringing down the Deity to the level of his finite intellect, and it could not but powerfully contribute to the rapid spread of a pagan anthropomorphism in the church."

"As a foundation for his inquiries Skarbek took two principles: economic freedom and the private interest of an individual. From this position he criticized the feudal system of Polish economy, especially the serfdom of peasants. But he tried also to find some modifications of the liberal economy, to adapt it to the then Polish conditions."

"Adam Smith, Say, and especially C. J. Kraus, one of the best teachers of Adam Smith’s theory, are my guides. The aim of my work is to present, in my own arrangement, their writings and thoughts clearly and plainly, together with some of my own observations."

"The powers inherent in man are his intelligence and his physical capacity for work. Those which arise from the condition of society consist of the capacity to divide up labour and to distribute different jobs amongst different People ... and the power to exchange mutual services and the products which constitute these means. The motive which impels a man to give his services to another is self -interest- he requires a reward for the services rendered. The right of exclusive private property is indispensable to the establishment of exchange amongst men... Exchange and division of labour reciprocally condition each other."

"[Adam Smith was] a higher above all genius (...) who had recognized some mistakes of the mercantile and physiocrats systems, put new principles of a theory called the industrial system, and directed minds for this road, on which they should necessarily advance"

"[The national economy is] a set of powers and ways used by a nation to keep and improve physical existence of its members... Moral good of a nation is a consequence of its education, and its physical good is a result of national economy."

"It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that."

"Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland" - clap clap, hurricane of clapping."

"Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward."

"Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!"

"I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well."

"Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes."

"Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society."

"Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel."

"Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what is capitalist supposed to do with "his" factory, and how he should father "his" children and occasionally - how many Jews (or anti-Semites) should be sent to Auschwitz."

"Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes smarter."

"I've had no sexual education, but I have six children."

"Prisons are the universities of the opposition."

"Socialism is a monster that will die."

"[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course."

"If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, the Holocaust might have been prevented."

"Under Hitler or Stalin a Góral [Tatra-highlander] could choose to produce oscypek [smoked cheese] however he preferred. Nowadays the EU official is watching him."

"Let's be straight, anarchist demanding state-sponsored welfare would be akin to a Catholic demanding right to rape the Mary, mother of Jesus."

"But please remember, that in 1991 in the w:Sejm [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!"

"My principal aim is to destroy socialism."

"Democracy means that if this man, you, and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution."

"The average intelligence quotient of Australian aborigines is more or less equal to a child with Down syndrome, and no one thinks to do abortions on Aborigines."

"A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong."

"A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors."

"I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows."

"When in an organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative"."

"The difference between Europe and USA is that in USA they keep the Reds in reservations, and we in parliaments."