Quotes from Lech Walesa

The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow.

My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

My health is very much improved.

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.

Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. 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 realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

No minority should climb all over the majority.