Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Hope does not consist of expecting things to turn out well, it consists of hoping that it will make sense” — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” — Václav Havel Copy Share
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share
