Search results
112 quotes from Václav Havel: '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.', 'Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it', and 'Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well.
- Books by Václav Havel (Author of The Power of the Powerless) - Goodreads
Václav Havel has 262 books on Goodreads with 55025 ratings....
- The Power of the Powerless Quotes by Václav Havel - Goodreads
The Power of the Powerless Quotes Showing 1-30 of 46....
- Books by Václav Havel (Author of The Power of the Powerless) - Goodreads
- Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.
- I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.
- Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it. Vaclav Havel. Running, Men, He Man.
- It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Vaclav Havel. Inspiring, Success, Vision.
- Disturbing The Peace
- Living in Truth
- New Year's Address to The Nation
- The Onassis Prize For Man and Mankind
- The Need For Transcendence in The Postmodern World
- Farewell Address
Disturbing the Peace : A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala; English translation by Paul Wilson (1990) When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one t...
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...
Prague (1 January 1990) My dear fellow citizens, For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume yo...
Athens (24 May 1993) Many people hardly ever see a politician as a person anymore. Instead, a politician is a shadow they watch on television, not knowing whether he is speaking impromptu or reading a text written for him by anonymous advisers or experts from a screen hidden behind the cameras. Citizens no longer perceive their politician as a livi...
Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (4 July 1994) - (text only link) I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended.Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully bei...
Czech Radio & Television (2 February 2003) In late 1989, the profound transformation that took place in this country brought me here to Prague Castle. It all happened so suddenly that I did not even have time to properly consider whether or not I was up to the task, and I was sincerely of the opinion that I would just take it on for a few months un...
Vaclav Havel Quotes - BrainyQuote. Czechoslovakian - Leader Born: October 5, 1936. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel. Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to ...
Vaclav Havel's quote, "Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred" encapsulates the essence of a harmonious society built on principles of justice and compassion. Havel recognizes that the foundation for a meaningful existence lies in upholding honesty and understanding, while rejecting deceit and animosity.
122 Sourced Quotes. 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. Václav Havel. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. Václav Havel.
People also ask
What are 111 quotes from Václav Havel?
Did Václav Havel deliver the same New Year's address a year before?
When was Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech?
The Power of the Powerless Quotes Showing 1-30 of 46. “Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.”. “In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably ...
