Daniela

“Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.”
― Józef Piłsudski

“It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Cultivation, old civilization, beauty, history! Surprising turnings of streets, shapes of venerable cottages, lovely aged eaves, unexpected and gossamer turrets, steeples, the gloss, the antiquity! Gardens. Whoever speaks of Paris has never seen Warsaw. [...] Whoever yearns for an aristocratic sensibility, let him switch on the great light of Warsaw.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“At the time of the liberation of the camps, I remember, we were convinced that after Auschwitz there would be no more wars, no more racism, no more hatred, no more anti-Semitism. We were wrong. This produced a feeling close to despair. For if Auschwitz could not cure mankind of racism, was there any chance of success ever? The fact is, the world has learned nothing. Otherwise, how is one to comprehend the atrocities committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia…”
― Elie Wiesel, Open Heart