"Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values……" — Vaclav Havel
"Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly."
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Vaclav Havel
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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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More Commonly Quotes
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer…
— Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
— Francis Bacon
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as…
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students.
— Edmond H. Fischer
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.
— Doug Larson
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In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
— John Bunyan
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