Janusz Quotes & Sayings

Prisons are the universities of the opposition. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people because people just really quickly become disinterested when they're always being told how to do it. — Janusz Kaminski

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing... — Janusz Korczak

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema ... — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child — Janusz Korczak

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell. — Janusz Kaminski

Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best", but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds, "best" things are these things that they consider "the best" for us, not these that we like!! — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

[Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, and he doesn't get paralyzed by the process or by new ideas. He embraces them and uses them. — Janusz Kaminski

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible. — Janusz Kaminski

Fascism is not [only] squads of the SA or the Blackshirts marching on the streets. Fascism is officials, in uniforms ordering what is capitalist supposed to do with "his" factory, and how he should father "his" children and occasionally - how many Jews (or anti-Semites) should be sent to Auschwitz. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores! — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A monkey is a much better voter than a socialist. Statistically speaking, if we assume that there are two options to choose from: the "A" and the "B" - the monkey is voting randomly, so its wrong 50% of the time. The socialist, however - is always wrong. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings. — Janusz Korczak

Life is a circus ring, with some moments more spectacular than others. — Janusz Korczak

Socialism destroys everywhere one thing - diversity. Everything is supposed to be best, and as we know, best things are always in shortage. I remind once more that for reds "best" is what they consider "best" for us, and not what we like. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary. — Janusz Korczak

Politicians that proclaim big words without meaning rule in democracy. At best they allow themselves to discover that it's better to be rich and healthy than sick and poor and that it is necessary to care for 'good of Poland - clap clap, hurricane of clapping. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Maybe it is not important to go to bed together but get up the following day and make a cup of tea for the other? — Janusz Leon Wisniewski

Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing. — Janusz Kaminski

The sleep of reason encourages the elections. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains. — Janusz Korczak

Each person carries an entire world within himself, and everything exists twice: once the way it is, the other the way he perceives it with his own eyes and feelings. — Janusz Korczak

You people are right - I am for equal rights for women. I am for that, female jobs such as feeding husband and children be considered as valuable as male jobs. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I never realized that a child is capable of remembering so well and of waiting so patiently — Janusz Korczak

The child
a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose. — Janusz Korczak

This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer. — Steven Spielberg

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man. — Janusz Korczak

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way — Janusz Korczak

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. Seek [within] the undiscovered part of yourself. (emphasis added) — Janusz Korczak

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

When does the loneliness of old age begin? — Janusz Korczak

[Conservatism is] a fight for keeping these qualities that made us move unceasingly. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I am for joining a free trade zone. The European Union is not such zone, but a zone of raging bureaucracy which stears every hectolitre of wine, and every tone of beef. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful, — Janusz Korczak

Janusz Korczak, Ghetto Diary (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003), p. x. "adhesions, — Diane Ackerman

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order. — Janusz Korczak

I've had no sexual education, but I have six children. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This is a nihilist policy which hurts people. — Janusz Palikot

Take a look at the world and laugh — Janusz Korczak

There are films that are difficult. There are films that would actually affect your personal life because of the length of the production, how long [you're away] from the family. — Janusz Kaminski

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. — Janusz Korczak

You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors. — Janusz Korczak

Life bites like a dog. — Janusz Korczak

If every other Jew had a weapon in 1939, there wouldn't be a Holocaust. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Whatever has been achieved through pressure and violence is unstable, unreliable and incorrect. — Janusz Korczak

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I am well versed in reading the pages of war. — Janusz Korczak

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people
not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now
today. — Janusz Korczak

The court does not fly off the handle. It does not shout abuse. It speaks calmly. — Janusz Korczak

[Women] Inferior? Superior! I am sexist, of course. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

God make me the man my dog thinks I am. — Janusz Leon Wisniewski

Children, being small and weak, have little market value. — Janusz Korczak

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Dare to dream ... something will always come of it — Janusz Korczak

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head. — Janusz Korczak

Socialism is a monster, which will die. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Socialists believe otherwise - a man is not competent enough to make decision should he use seatbelt, should he buy insurance, and the same man is competent enough to elect president and government. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future. — Janusz Korczak

But please remember, that in 1991 in the Seym [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country! — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious. — Janusz Korczak

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary? — Janusz Korczak

Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states they disobey them. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

It's great to be recognized for work, and the work is great, but once you have the awards, it becomes less important. It just gives you the ability to do better work, in my opinion. — Janusz Kaminski

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative". — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust. — Janusz Korczak