Lech Walesa Quotes

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Lech Walesa

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 29, 1943

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?

Lech Walesa

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

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

Lech Walesa

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Lech Walesa

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.

Lech Walesa

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

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lech Walesa

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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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.

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We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Lech Walesa

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

Lech Walesa

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Lech Walesa

There is something of the warrior in me.

Lech Walesa

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.

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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Lech Walesa