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Vaclav Havel has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at…
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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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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
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Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on…
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the…
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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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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a…
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as…
— Blaise Pascal
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire…
— Vaclav Havel
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Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
— Dale Carnegie
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity.
— John Selden
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The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they…
— Errico Malatesta
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Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…
— Rudolf Rocker
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of…
— Pope John Paul II
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In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
— Pope John Paul II
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to…
— Alec Guinness
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It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of…
— Simone Veil
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If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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