69 ordspråk av Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
It is as if many have again ignored the fact that an attack on the freedom of individuals threatens the freedom of all.
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It is the beginning of the worst moment. All of the flood barriers are at their maximum level.
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Just as many showed their solidarity with us when we were striving for freedom, so now we must show solidarity to those who are only striving for it in uneasy conditions,
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Lying can never save us from another lie.
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Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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Mr. President, for the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization there's no doubt in my mind that it was personal leadership that made this historic development possible.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,
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Our task is to feel the danger of these regimes.
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People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
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People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
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Poles are able to reflect their history, they respect it. Who knows if anybody will remember when we commemorate our 25 years [since the 1989 Velvet Revolution].
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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