"Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.“


-Lech Walesa

posted in fear


Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible."

-Lech Walesa

warView Quote
"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle."

-Lech Walesa

warView Quote
"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."

-Lech Walesa

sympathyView Quote
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."

-Lech Walesa

strengthView Quote
"Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go."

-Lech Walesa

strengthView Quote
"I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society."

-Lech Walesa

societyView Quote

More Quotes About fear

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."

-Arianna Huffington

fearView Quote
"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."

-Candace Bushnell

fearView Quote
"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."

-Nicholas Hoult

fearView Quote
"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."

-Camille Claudel

fearView Quote
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

-John B. S. Haldane

fearView Quote
"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

-Lionel Richie

fearView Quote