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
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world.… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas… — 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
