Quotes Vaclav Havel

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk ...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the h...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by d...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate an...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You eithe...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this dee...

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not...

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

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of s...

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect....

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. T...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth ...

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of...

Lying can never save us from another lie....

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to t...

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the s...

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians ...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most ...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in othe...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interact...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in ...

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less...

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our miser...

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on th...

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