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People Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
- 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,…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- People, your Government has returned to you!
- 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 previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence…
- 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,…
- People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
- If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a…
- 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…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle