"There can be no doubt that distrust of……" — Vaclav Havel

"There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them."

— 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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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter… — Samuel Butler
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield
Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may… — Eric Alterman
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie… — Piers Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides… — Susan B. Anthony
Our distrust is very expensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't. — Nikki Giovanni
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares… — Rabindranath Tagore
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit.… — Laurens van der Post

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