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I really do inhabit a system i...

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Hope is a feeling that life an...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The salvation of this human wo...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

But if I were to say who influ...

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The deeper the experience of a...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Just as the constant increase ...

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Drama assumes an order. If onl...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The attempt to devote oneself ...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

I think theatre should always ...

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

In my opinion, theater shouldn...

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

It lies in human nature that w...

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

There's always something suspe...

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

What's certain is that a total...

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

If we are to change our world ...

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Even a purely moral act that h...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

None of us know all the potent...

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Without free, self-respecting,...

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The clichГ© organizes life; it...

The clichГ© organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Twenty or thirty years ago, in...

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Human rights, human freedoms, ...

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because, under certain circumstances, people accept them without compulsion and are willing to die for them.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

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