Change for the better Quote by Václav Havel

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

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,…

— Vaclav Havel

“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”

— Václav Havel

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

— Vaclav Havel

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly…

— Vaclav Havel

If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I…

— Vaclav Havel

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable…

— Vaclav Havel

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is…

— Vaclav Havel

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

— Vaclav Havel

People, your Government has returned to you!

— Vaclav Havel

A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass…

— Vaclav Havel

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

— Vaclav Havel