"Drama assumes an order. If only so that……" — Vaclav Havel
"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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124 Quotes by Vaclav Havel
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell…
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Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as…
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
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Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially…
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not…
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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in…
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Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights…
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More Assumes Quotes
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to…
— Jerry Bridges
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy…
— James Anthony Froude
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But…
— Dan Barker
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to…
— John Cage
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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