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Human Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,…
- It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern…
- 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…
- A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human.…
- 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, and…
- You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a…
- I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that…
- The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.
- Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
- Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the…
- The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of…
- Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly,…
- The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human…
- The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in…
- The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
- Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps…
- As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to…
- The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human…
- It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
- All human suffering concerns each human being
- Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.
- I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to…
- Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong