I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Quote by Vaclav Havel

Topics: Government Quotes

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so...

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so...

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without...

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the...

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the...

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the...

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to...

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity...

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that...

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often,...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often,...

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Lying can never save us from another lie.