I personally think President [Hosni] Mubarak, who's done a lot for Egypt, should acknowledge that his time has come and step down… — 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
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to… — 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
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“At one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Again, I call to mind that distant moment in [the prison at] Hermanice when on a hot, cloudless summer day, I sat… — Václav 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
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