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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God."
"I may be boring, but it would be to wake up by my dog and then my daughter."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
"I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking."
"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
"I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
"Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs."
"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."
"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
"They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them."
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy."
"You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."
"Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice."
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery."
"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives."
"The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
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