34 Quotations by Vaclav Havel
- 21. The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity -- the more energ ...
- 22. The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has ...
- 23. The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful a ...
- 24. The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better ...
- 25. The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serv ...
- 26. The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to r ...
- 27. The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and ...
- 28. There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides ...
- 29. There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, ...
- 30. There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
- 31. True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
- 32. Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell ...
- 33. Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. ...
- 34. You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. ...
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