54 Quotes About Poland
- Author Stanisław Pigoń
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We belong to a nation, whose fate is to shoot at the enemy with diamonds.
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- Author Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
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Tylko krzyk widma, które chłop nabił na widły,tylko krzyk kotów duszonych przez księżyc.Czy umiesz zasnąć? Dziś obłąkany poetapowiesił się w czarnym krzyku zamiejskich sosen,a trupa kukły woskowej przy wiatru fletachdeszcz po ulicach długo ciągnął za włosy.
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- Author Hilaire Belloc
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An effort was made to spread this new materialist atheism with its Communist consequence "by the sword" (as the metaphor goes), that is, by the invasion of neighboring countries with consequent further massacres and the extension of the area of despotic Soviet control... This armed attempt at expansion was checked by Catholic Poland, the most immediately exposed victim, in what has been called "one of the decisive battles of the world.
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- Author Zygmunt Miłoszewski
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Najbardziej polskie słowo: ŻÓŁĆ1. Składa się z samych znaków występujących wyłącznie w polskim języku.2. W symboliczny sposób stanowi o naturze naszej wspólnoty: zgorzknienie, frustracja, poczucie niespełnienia, ciągłe niezadowolenie...
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- Author Glenn Kurtz
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Of the approximately 2,900 Jewish Nasielskers who remained in Poland, fewer than ten survived the war.
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- Author Władysław Szpilman
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It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could break out of the ghetto, or at least die honourably, not as a stain on the face of history!
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- Author Mary Fulbrook
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The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies
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- Author Anna Świrszczyńska
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I am born for the second time,happiness of the worldcame to me again.My body effervescences,I think with my body which effervesces.If I wishI will soar.
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- Author Józef Piłsudski
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To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
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