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on the 85th anniversary of the death of the leader of National Democracy.
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- Text of the Resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland 25 years ago"With respect to the 60th anniversary of the death of Roman Dmowski, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland expresses appreciation for the fight and work of the large statesman to rebuild the independent Polish State and states that it has served the Homeland well. In his activities Roman Dmowski emphasized the relation between the improvement of the Nation and the possession of his own State, formulating the concept of national interest. This meant unifying all the lands of the erstwhile Republic inhabited by the Polish majority, as well as raising the national awareness of all layers and social groups. He created a school of political realism and responsibility. As a typical of the resurrected Republic at the Versailles conference, he contributed decisively to shaping our borders, especially the western border. The function of Roman Dmowski in emphasizing a close relation between Catholicism and Poland for the endurance of the Nation and rebuilding the State is peculiarly important. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland commends the outstanding Pole Roman Dmowski." — Roman Dmowski Source: Resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of 8 January 1999 on celebrating the 60th anniversary of the death of Roman Dmowski
2.extensive selection of respective quotes from texts by Roman Dmowski or from publications devoted to His individual and views:
“... no 1 can destruct the national camp: it is neither an expression nor a doctrine nor a peculiar interest; it grows out of the essence of the nation, it is the organization of the national spirit, and erstwhile the nation is alive, it cannot perish. He may not be able to stand up to his duties erstwhile he is stupid and erstwhile he is troubled by interior problems.” — Roman Dmowski Source: in a letter to the prelate priest Józef Prądzyński http://www.romandmowski.pl/default.php?share=texts&id=27.13 February 1934
“We have so departed from another nations that we celebrate defeats erstwhile they celebrate victory.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Polish politics and rebuilding the state, 1925
"Yes, we are in the main of our mass, in what constitutes a nation of the future, a young society that is only beginning to monetize and push into the field of global competition on which another peoples are conveniently seated today. And if it can be said that Poland, which has fallen to the ground and has been restrained since the century, has started to decision again, then the main minute here is the movement of the folk mass, young, vital, adulterated, first, awakened with the sleep of forces that are moving to life: it is not actually the rebirth of old Poland, but the formation of a fresh 1 from motionless decks for centuries." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of modern Pole, 1903
"A profoundly deeper breakdown of Polish intelligence resulted from a massive intrusion into its ranks of Jews. On the eve of the [January] Polish reform, the legal divisions between them and Polish society were abolished. Then they went to advanced schools and universities. They created a large intelligence, taking part in the Polish life, bringing their tendencies into it, imposing on him their tastes and their hatreds, and in cases even in which they tried to be as many Poles as possible, incapable to get free of their separate psyche, their instincts. This intelligence, as its number grew, became little Polish and more Jewish.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of Modern Pole, 1903 http://www.nonpossumus.pl/library/roman_dmowski/minds/p-I.
"It is the 1 that gives us (passivity – cars.) not only as a nation, but as individuals. Above all, we owe it to her that among us the phenomenon of pessimism, hopelessness, deficiency of religion in ourselves and in the ability to live in a better way is so common. You gotta know and realize the world, and you gotta make your own life according to your own requirements. Then the planet will not be so ugly, and life on it will not be as bad as we frequently think." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of a modern Pole, 1903.
“I am Polish – this word in a deeper sense means a lot. I am it not only due to the fact that I talk Polish, that others who talk the same language are closer to me and have understood for me that any of my individual matters are closer to them than to strangers, but besides because, next to the sphere of individual life, I know the collective life of the nation, which I am a part of, that alongside my individual interests and interests I know national interests, the interests of Poland, as a whole, the highest interests for which 1 should not sacrifice for individual matters." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of a modern Pole, 1903
“Someone else, philosophically minded—and specified in our passive, lazy society is simply a legion—will say: why then work for the nation, push it forward, bring it out into the audience of past if 1 day he will grow old and die? My God, each of us knows of himself that he will die, and yet he does not head working for himself, gaining wealth, office, influence, etc. Our task as members of a nation is not to give it eternal existence, but only to gain the top strength from it, to win him out as much, richest, in all respect as possible life." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of Modern Pole, 1903
"We are a young nation, and erstwhile it comes to the spiritual freshness of the main social mass – possibly the youngest in Europe. Poland fell not due to the fact that it grew old as a nation, but due to the fact that it derailed in development." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of a modern Pole, 1903
“Everything Polish is mine: I cannot renounce anything. I am allowed to be arrogant of what is large in Poland, but I must accept and humiliate the nation for what is mediocre in it." — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of a Modern Pole, 1903
“The planet needs to know and understand, and to make your own life according to your own requirements. The planet won't be as ugly then, and life on it as bad as we frequently think. It is only hard for the effeminate idlers and ruthless for those who do not realize the spirit of time.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of Modern Pole, 1903
“Our peasant, despite his low culture, is more capable, more capable than a German or French peasant, it is not necessarily the reason why these nations formed from inferior racial material, but that only surviving in civilization for a long time and in more intense forms of it, managed to pull any of the best material out of the people and mostly destruct it.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Thoughts of Modern Pole, 1903
“We live in a time of bankruptcy of many foundations on which the life of the planet of our civilisation has been based in fresh times of history. In the leading countries of civilization, the existing foundations are fast-tracked, and there is small evidence of creativity towards building fresh ones. Rather, 1 sees stubbornness toward saving what cannot be saved. specified moments in the past of civilized humanity have been happening before. They have always been marked by certain common features, regardless of the conditions of time and place: the fall of faith, strong religion in anything; the fall of thought—the decline of creation; the fall of taste—the heightening of ugliness over beauty; the distribution of moral discipline and the fall of customs; and finally, the spread of various superstitions, replacing spiritual beliefs. All these features happen in a very highlighted way in today's life of our civilization." — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, Nation and State, 1927
"It is not essential to prove that the fall of Catholic nations would consequence in the fall of the function and influence of the Catholic Church. It was besides in church spheres with harsh criticism that any extremes of nationalism were performed, but mostly a very successful symptom of national energy in Catholic societies. All the more so, that together with the revival of national thought a turn towards Catholicism was going, encompassing a large number of people who under the influence of the currents of the 19th century were far from him.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, Nation and State, 1927
“Before Poland, in my opinion, there are specified large views as it has not had in centuries. But it can only usage it if it grows to its position and its responsibilities. It depends on whether the Polish national camp in these hard moments for it will not weaken either in its thoughts or in its actions. I have no uncertainty that our opponents know this well... Today, too, the first task is to benefit from the weakness or folly of these or another elements in our womb, to break us apart, to break us apart into groups fighting each other..." — Roman Dmowski Source: in a letter to the prelate priest Józef Prądzyński http://www.romandmowski.pl/default.php?share=texts&id=27, February 13, 1934
"They [Jews] tied their career with modern capitalism, upon which improvement and character they themselves had produced a large influence, and by it they expected to come to complete planet rule." — Roman Dmowski in 1930. Source: Adam Leszczyński, How right-wing censors Dmowski http://election.pl/1,75968,15216829,How_right_censor_Dmowski.html, electoral.pl, January 3, 2014.
“Polish beige Jews would be like pepperless soup without taste.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Polish politics and reconstruction of the state, 1925
“The Catholic people’s policy must be sincere Catholic, that is, religion, its improvement and strength must be regarded as a goal that it cannot be utilized as a means for another purposes, nothing to do with it.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, Nation and State, 1927
"Polish State is simply a Catholic State. It is not just due to the fact that the vast majority of its population is Catholic, and is not Catholic in 1 percent or another. From our position it is Catholic in its full meaning, due to the fact that our state is simply a national state and our nation is simply a Catholic nation. This position has serious consequences. It implies that state laws warrant freedom for all religions, but the prevailing religion, whose rules are governed by the state's legislation, is Catholic religion, and the Catholic Church is the expression of the spiritual side in the state's functions. We have non-Catholics in our nation, we have them among the most conscious and best performing Polish members of the nation. However, these realize that Poland is simply a Catholic country and apply its actions to this. The Polish nation, in a more strict sense, including its conscious responsibilities and its responsibilities, does not deny its members the right to believe in anything another than Catholics, to practice another religions, but does not grant them the right to conduct politics, contrary to the character and needs of the Catholic nation, or against Catholics." — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, Nation and State, 1927
"Freedom has already lost the strength of spiritual attraction. Having organizational power, and hence power and promulgation of grace, it inactive attracts people, in large numbers. But this human race, drawn by grace, does not conquer the world. The future belongs to those who have the idea, religion in it and the ability to sacrifice it." — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, nation and state, 1927
"Do we want to destruct Germany? - No, I don't. This would be the demolition of European civilization, which is the common good of all Europe. (...) I worked my full life against the Germans due to the fact that I wanted Poland to live, and German politics set a mark for its destruction. However, he would be incorrect to think that I am guided by any blind hatred of the Germans, or that I am incapable of a just judgement of the value of the German people. Many features of the mentality and character of German are opposed to my Polish psyche, a full scope of another nations are closer to me spiritually, but I have deep respect for the individuality of all nation and far from condemning everything that is abroad to me. I would be happy if relations between us and Germany could be healthy neighbourly relations, based on common respect, which would let for cooperation where necessary. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's going to be a long time before specified relations happen. To the depths of unhealthy psychology of the German people in relation to Poland for a long time will inactive be a origin of inexorable conflict and failure of strength, both Polish and German, which could be utilized for large civilization work of both nations." — Roman Dmowski Source: Izabella Wolikowska, Roman Dmowski. Man, Pole, Friend. pp. 124–125.
"It is clear that, in order to guarantee the future of Poland, we must strive hard and consistently to guarantee that there are less and less Jews in our country.... The basis of their strength is to master trade in Poland, and in part crucial and crafts, to feed our cities and towns. Poles must take into their own hands their trade, clear their crafts from the Jews." — Roman Dmowski in 1934. Source: Adam Leszczyński, How right-wing censors Dmowski http://election.pl/1,75968,15216829,How_right_censor_Dmowski.html, electoral.pl, January 3, 2014.
“For a long time, I have come to believe that Piłsudski dreams of a military dictatorship, of Napoleon’s function in the revolution. specified a man, turned on by his co-conspirators, who hunger for power, is easy willing to effort to attack the Sejm. specified an assassination, in my opinion, is doomed to fiasco in the sense that Poland is ruled without the support of the nation no 1 can. However, we must not be faced with specified a coup, but with a view not to the assassination. The effort of specified an assassination can kill Poland...” — Roman Dmowski Source: in a letter to Stanisław Grabski http://www.romandmowski.pl/default.php?share=texts&id=28, March 14, 1919
“The fight against national ethics from a Christian standpoint does not prove a deep knowing of Christian principles and a strong attachment to them, but only a deficiency of national sense and frequently logic. In relation to a foreigner, let us give it to the German or Moskal, the Christian ethics apply to me as much as to my individual attitude, to the attitude of man to man, but where we both act as representatives and defenders of the affairs of our peoples, I am the only 1 in the national ethics. In individual relations, I must not harm him as well as if he were my countryman, for in these relations our ethics, Christian ethics, do not admit national differences. But even kill him I have an work to fight for my country." — Roman Dmowski Source: The Basics of Polish Politics (printed in “The All Poland Review” in 1905 and then in the 3rd edition of the thought of a Modern Pole, 1907)
"I could not say where first, in France or Italy, the word "nationalism" was utilized to specify the fresh national movement. I always thought it was an unfortunate term, weakening the value of movement and the thoughts that this movement expressed. All the "ism" contains the concept of doctrine, the direction of thought, with which there is simply a place for other, equivalent directions. The nation is the only social figure in the planet of our civilization, the responsibilities to the nation are obligations, from which no 1 of its members can break out: all his sons should work for him and fight for his existence, make efforts to rise his value as advanced as possible, extract from him as much energy in the creative work and in the defence of national existence. Any “isms” that do not admit these duties that destruct their sense of human souls are illegitimate.” — Roman Dmowski Source: Church, Nation and State, 1927
“A decently organized nation is simply a power that nothing in the planet can resist. Therefore, the national organization has a work to act honestly and openly. Only camps, acting against the nation and its welfare, have the request to hotel in the fight for their targets to wicked means—to lies, hypocrisy, slander, even to murder. An organization that appreciates the dignity of its nation, wanting to be as spiritual and moral as possible, can act only by honest means. Honesty, however, requires large courage erstwhile it comes to fighting. Cowards never fight fair.” — Roman Dmowski Source: a passage of the speech given at the end of the gathering calling for the OWP in Poznań http://www.romandmowski.pl/default.php?share=texts&id=24December 1926.
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A fewer of your own reflections:
The above quotations do not, of course, exhaust all aspects of R. Dmowski's reflections on Poland, much little on the modern world. This is just an outline of views from different periods of his life, state activities and political journalism. But by stopping with this choice, I am tempted to make a kind of assessment of the relevance and durability of the 120 - 100 years ago.
– In my opinion, Dmowski's statements concerning the intellectual formation of the Polish society and a kind of inactivity stay inactive valid in order not to say grumpyness. Yes, we are a politically passive nation with large inertia and any kind of recklessness and immaturity. These features make national identity and national awareness, which will not find support in the circumstantial foundations of economical and cultural sovereignty, can easy be lost or blurred through information-cultural external aggression – spontaneous or worse, organized.
– Poles, as a comparatively young nation, were subjected to large historical attempts of disintegration and annihilation and from these trials came out severely mutilated, but not defeated. In order to appear from these historical experiences with a defensive hand – Poles gotta break their passiveness, go beyond the privacy region and effort to make their own national- and state-genuine improvement idea.
– In my opinion, R. Dmowski made a mistake identifying the Polish national state with the concept of a Catholic state. Dmowski underestimated both the external forces destroying the institution of the Catholic Church, but even worse he did not see the contradiction between the globalist (as we call it today's language) the essence of the Catholic Church, and the integral and sovereign concept of the Polish state.
– R. Dmowski, despite his cognition of the strength and influences of planet judaic and Masonic environments, underestimated their increasing power and the scope and tools of influences on socio-economic life in the future, and what goes hand in hand, on political relations. The another side of these powers was besides not seen – active and effective shaping of cultural-civilization changes.
– All statements made by R. Dmowski regarding the organizational basis of the political behaviour of the nation and the foundations of ethical-moral organizations of the state as political forms of the nation's life have retained their current position to this day.
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