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Vaclav Havel Quotes

Vaclav Havel quotes

Czechoslovakian Leader October 5, 1936 – December 18, 2011

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The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred."
Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of..."
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well...."
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Vaclav Havel
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Vaclav Havel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of..."
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. 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 be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. Vaclav Havel
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. Vaclav Havel
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it. Vaclav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Vaclav Havel
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "It lies in human nature that where you experience your first..."
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel quote: "Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be..."
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. Vaclav Havel
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed? be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization? will be unavoidable. If we are no longer threatened by world war or by the danger that the absurd mountains of accumulated nuclear weapons might blow up the world, this does not mean that we have definitely won. We are still... Vaclav Havel

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