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World 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,…
- Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation…
- The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are…
- Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the…
- We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
- 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.
- 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,…
- It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of…
- 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…
- I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know.…
- 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…
- The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
- 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…
- 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 exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so…
- Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that…
- 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…
- 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…
- Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The…
- 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…
- The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions,…
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach