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Doe Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.…
- Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of…
- If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
- The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and…
- A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary…
- I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
- Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to…
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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi