Human rights Quotes by Vaclav Havel

10 Human rights quotes by Vaclav Havel

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Havel’s political essays distill into these ten lines, offering a clear view of his belief that rights are both a personal and civic duty. They’re a quick, thoughtful guide for anyone pondering civic freedom.

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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human…

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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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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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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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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a…

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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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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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If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at…

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Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and…

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I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,…

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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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