"Human beings are compelled to live within a……" — 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 of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."
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124 Quotes by Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel has 124 quotes on this site.
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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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If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well,…
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law…
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A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance…
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Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate…
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The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and…
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I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted. I think if you alienate people and just focus on…
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate…
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I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second:…
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But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and…
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Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for…
— Dennis Kucinich
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Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't want to…
— Cynthia Nixon
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The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this…
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