Quotes of Lech Walesa - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ It takes really a long while for people to learn to take advantage of (democracy). So the legal framework of democracy can function everywhere. But as we say in Poland, it's hard to make a bull move unless it really wants to. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ Communism fit Poland like a horse's saddle on a pig. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ Here the (Soviet) bear got his teeth knocked out. He could no longer bite other nations trying to break away to freedom. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I got politics and economics moving and then others took over. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”

- Lech Walesa

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

- Lech Walesa

“ Communism fit Poland like a horse's saddle on a pig. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ The higher the technology, the higher the freedom. Technology enforces certain solutions: satellite dishes, computers, videos, international telephone lines force pluralism and freedom onto a society. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ Here the (Soviet) bear got his teeth knocked out. He could no longer bite other nations trying to break away to freedom. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”

- Lech Walesa

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

- Lech Walesa

“ Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. ”

- 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. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ He did not tell us to make a revolution, he did not call for a coup, but he was so suggestive that we all had to define ourselves. The Polish nation and many other nations awoke. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ Communism fit Poland like a horse's saddle on a pig. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ”

- Lech Walesa

“ He did not tell us to make a revolution, he did not call for a coup, but he was so suggestive that we all had to define ourselves. The Polish nation and many other nations awoke. ”

- Lech Walesa
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