Quotes by Vaclav Havel

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

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

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

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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political...

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

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

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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who...

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

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

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

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand...

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

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