Lech Walesa Quotes
The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Wałęsa, Lech. "Nobel Lecture." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 11 Dec. 1983.
He had advocated the removal of the Assad regime in Syria which had been murdering its own citizens. However Assad had kept peace with Israel and many in America and Israel feared that if Assad fell, the Iranians would be strengthened and perhaps be the dominant force in Syria. And theocratic Iran had vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. The interviewer had asked Peres if it might be a better strategy for Israel to support Assad?
Rules are inflexible, but principles can be balanced and guide people more judiciously.
The principle applies to religious and political doctrine, both.
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. A shipyard electrician by trade, he became the leader of the Solidarity movement, and led a successful pro-democratic effort which in 1989 ended the Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.
