English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — 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
