Freedom Quotes by Vaclav Havel

11 Freedom quotes by Vaclav Havel

Havel’s reflections weave together the poet’s sensitivity and the playwright’s defiance, offering a nuanced view of what it means to be free in a world of shifting borders. The eleven entries give a compact taste of his thoughtful resistance.

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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

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English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is…

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The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas…

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The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only…

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Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human…

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People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed…

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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as…

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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens…

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The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must…

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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,…

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“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”

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Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

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This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly…

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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I…

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Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable…

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Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is…

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I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

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People, your Government has returned to you!

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A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass…

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Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

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