Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at… — 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
Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market… — 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 Image
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 Image
“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. — 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 of mass… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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