Quotes About Prague Spring

#1. The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

Adam Michnik

#2. For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

Adam Michnik

#3. The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

Adam Michnik

#4. North Korean students and intellectuals didn't dare to stage protests as their counterparts in other Communist countries did. There was no Prague Spring or Tiananmen Square. The level of repression in North Korea was so great that no organized resistance could take root.

Barbara Demick

#5. How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Jason Mraz

#6. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true.

Craig Silvey

#7. Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

Christian Louboutin

#10. What is the essence of Vitrag? Fearlessness!

Dada Bhagwan