Polish Culture Quotes

There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

No nation has ever been more brutally oppressed than the Poles. The divisions of Poland were disgraceful crimes, and cannot be excused … they were always pioneers of culture, and today they would be a defensive rampart of culture; their liberation would harm nobody but the criminals that have erased Poland from the family of states, and would hurt no interests but those of the universal enemy of human progress and freedom.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

Poland has not yet perished.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.

We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.

How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O

If you ask the Polish people, I believe that a vast majority of them would say they are pleased with E.U. membership, but also a majority consider very highly the sovereignty and independence of Poland - they are very attached to Polish tradition.

Anyone who expresses anti-Semitic ideas in Poland is like a person who steps on a grave - a despicable act in Polish culture.

I served the Poland that existed.

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.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

One of the most remarkable shindigs I ever attended was in Warsaw.

Poland is a country of strong women.

I visited Krakow about 10 years ago, and when you're named Krakowski, you are very welcomed. I loved every minute of it. They had 'Ally McBeal' on Polish TV. People offered to drive us out to our family's farm.

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad,..

I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.

I can't imagine life without Poland. I find it very hard to find a place for myself in the West.

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.