152 Quotes by Lech Wałęsa

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

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!

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

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

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

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.

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.