Respect Quotes by Vaclav Havel

8 Respect quotes by Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel’s political and philosophical insights on respect are captured in eight brief lines. The selection mirrors his thoughtful cadence, giving readers a concise window into his ideas about dignity and civic duty.

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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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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 law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against…

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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and…

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

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I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world…

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“Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.”

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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.

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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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Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

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