Quotes by Polish authors

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Daniel Libeskind

"When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"People find life entirely too time-consuming"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"There is no direct evidence that nuclear weapons prevented a world war. Conversely, it is known that they nearly caused one"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The first requisite for immortality is death"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Value your words. Each one may be the last"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Never lie when the truth is more profitable"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"To sum up, there is no evidence that a world without nuclear weapons would be a dangerous world. On the contrary, it would be a safer world, as I will show later"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

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