Quotes by Vaclav Havel

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am...

#Politics

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire...

#Government

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

#Truth

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population,...

#Vaclav Havel

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

#Vaclav Havel

Lying can never save us from another lie.

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

#Vaclav Havel

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now...

#Vaclav Havel

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

#Vaclav Havel

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that...

#Vaclav Havel

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

#Vaclav Havel

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

#Vaclav Havel