Vaclav Havel Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.
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.
People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures ... that is devishly hard!
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
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.
Truth lies not only in what is said, but also in who says it, to whom, why, how and under what circumstances.
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
I have said it so often: if the West does not stabilize the East, the East will destabilize the West.