Autonomous Quote by Vaclav Havel

“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.”

Vaclav Havel

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

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

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

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

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

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People, your Government has returned to you!

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

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