People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are… — 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… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural… — 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
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
Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept… — 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
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
I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and… — 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
It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. — 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
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Planetary democracy does not yet exist but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth… — 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
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. — 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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