If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice,"… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain. — 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
Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works… — 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
It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in 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
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
Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like… — 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
The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do.… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world… — 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
