Warszawa
All the common people kissed my hands, my feet, my clothes; others only touched me, saying, 'Ah, let us kiss so valiant a hand! King John III Sobieski (an excerpt from a letter written to his wife, after victory in the Battle of Vienna)
"I came, I saw, God conquered." (King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, Sobieski after the Battle of Vienna)
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. (Ignace Paderewski)
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
"Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably anymore. All right, we're not free. But we are used to that, Mr. Kujawski. After all we were both born into slavery, and we will die in it. Oh yes, at first they'll exploit us ruthlessly. Fourteen hours of slave labor a day. A bowl of watery soup. Whippings, beatings... But that will pass with time. Because there is peace, they won't have a chance to get any new slaves. They'll have to take good care of those have already. Cheer up, dear Mr. Kujawski... [...] Arbeit macht frei, work makes man free, and it makes him especially so in the sunshine of European peace. We will lack only one thing. Only one! The right of dissent. The right to say out loud that we want a free and independent Poland, that we want to brush our teeth and go on holiday in our own way, conceive children and work our own way, think in our own way, live and die. This is the one thing you will find missing in the sunshine of European peace, which you, my friend, hold to be the highest good." (Andrzej Szczypiorski, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman)
May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland. (Wladyslaw Anders)
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope John Paul II)
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible - because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering. (Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont)
Read More"I came, I saw, God conquered." (King Jan III Sobieski of Poland, Sobieski after the Battle of Vienna)
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. (Ignace Paderewski)
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
"Ah, my dear friend, cheer up... After all, we have peace! And because there is peace, the occupiers can't behave so abominably anymore. All right, we're not free. But we are used to that, Mr. Kujawski. After all we were both born into slavery, and we will die in it. Oh yes, at first they'll exploit us ruthlessly. Fourteen hours of slave labor a day. A bowl of watery soup. Whippings, beatings... But that will pass with time. Because there is peace, they won't have a chance to get any new slaves. They'll have to take good care of those have already. Cheer up, dear Mr. Kujawski... [...] Arbeit macht frei, work makes man free, and it makes him especially so in the sunshine of European peace. We will lack only one thing. Only one! The right of dissent. The right to say out loud that we want a free and independent Poland, that we want to brush our teeth and go on holiday in our own way, conceive children and work our own way, think in our own way, live and die. This is the one thing you will find missing in the sunshine of European peace, which you, my friend, hold to be the highest good." (Andrzej Szczypiorski, The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman)
May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland. (Wladyslaw Anders)
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. (Pope John Paul II)
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible - because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering. (Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont)
