"There is only one thing I will not……" — Vaclav Havel

"There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause."

— Vaclav Havel

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124 Quotes by Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel has 124 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — Irving Babbitt
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to… — Stephen Baldwin
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child… — William Barclay
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a… — Roseanne Barr
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. — Dave Barry
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being… — Drew Barrymore
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is… — Scott Adams
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the… — Simone de Beauvoir

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