34 Quotations by Vaclav Havel
- 1. A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awarenes ...
- 2. A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: inter ...
- 3. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can co ...
- 4. As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the meas ...
- 5. Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surpri ...
- 6. Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually ...
- 7. Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as ...
- 8. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn ...
- 9. Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because the ...
- 10. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of governmen ...
- 11. I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.
- 12. If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly pe ...
- 13. If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job t ...
- 14. If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
- 15. Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of ...
- 16. Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look b ...
- 17. None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways ...
- 18. People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one ...
- 19. Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
- 20. The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxicall ...
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