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Vaclav Havel Quotes
«I feel with leaving office I will enter a new realm of great freedom than I have had ... and I will speak more freely,»
«All respected domestic and international organizations agree that your demands are justified. Therefore I wish you strength, endurance, courage and fortunate decisions.»
«The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction,»
«You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it.»
«We long ago pulled down the great wall which divided us from democratic Europe, but equally we tolerate the slow and inconspicuous growth of new walls, no better than those which fell,»
«Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
autonomous, guarantee, respecting, self-respecting
«The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.»
«There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
allegiance, authenticity, insight, irrelevant, revelatory
«There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
harmful, indict, indicted, indicting, slumber, unobtrusively, unwarranted