88 Quotes by Norman Davies

Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.

Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.

The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.

It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.