"I think its important for one to take……" — Vaclav Havel

"I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself."

— Vaclav Havel

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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.
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell…
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as…
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially…
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not…
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in…
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it.
We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights…

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