"If one were required to increase the dramatic……" — Vaclav Havel
"If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue."
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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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