Skip to content

Tadeusz Mazowiecki Quotes

1927–2013 Poland

Tadeusz Mazowiecki (18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946.

Poland
Authors
Journalists

Random Tadeusz Mazowiecki quote

4 quotes

We reject a political philosophy asserting that economic reforms can be launched over and against society, above people's heads - one that pushes democratic change aside.

Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1989)

We, as a people, must surmount the sense of hopelessness and confront the challenge of the moment - namely, the tasks of extricating ourselves from economic disaster and reconstructing our state.

Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1989)

The government alone will not heal any-thing. We must do this together, for Poland will only be different, if we all truly want it to be so.

We all desire to live with dignity in a sovereign, democratic, and law-abiding state, one that everybody - regardless of their worldviews and ideological and political diversity - can consider their own.

Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1989)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tadeusz Mazowiecki (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.