Václav Havel Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes ...

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

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindl...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful a...

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations....

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes ...

You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career....

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious ...

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and w...

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually...

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we ...

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the ...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of th...

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energet...

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

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to r...