It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — 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
