Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republicafter the Czech–Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 October 1936
CityPrague, Czech Republic
government people
People, your Government has returned to you!
evil use done
Evil must be confronted in its womb and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force.
hopeful fundamentals improvement
A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
distance thinking important
I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
suffering concern humans
All human suffering concerns each human being
hero truth-is given
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
heart grieving soul
Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.
rights people leader
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
courage mean names
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
organization waiting despair
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
might causes strive
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
perseverance each-day littles
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.
identity world tests
I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.
accomplishment needs driven
If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.