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Vaclav Havel Quotes


The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

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

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

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.

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