Wladyslaw Bartoszewski famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#Leader #Psychological #Habit
Many people expect, just as they did then, "those at the top" to make all their decisions for them: Please get us work, and take care of our rent. These people vote for those who shout the loudest and deliver promises that are ultimately impossible to fulfill.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#People #Decision #Promise
Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#Squad #Political #Police
As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#Facts #Boundaries #Historian
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.
-- Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

#Past #Political #Culture

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
One People, one Reign, one Leader.
Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self.
I am very concerned about the environment and psychological health of this beautiful planet.
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

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