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Wells Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- 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 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 am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that…
- I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that…
- Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something…
- Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things…
- There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of…
- Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
- You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by…
- The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong