Václav Havel
Czech · 1936–2011
Czech playwright, dissident, and statesman who led the Velvet Revolution and became the first president of the Czech Republic.
Wikipedia ↗“The power of the powerless lies in the ability to live within the truth.”
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“The power of the powerless lies in the ability to live within the truth. When a greengrocer refuses to put a propaganda slogan in his window, he is not merely making a gesture — he is shattering the entire structure of the post-totalitarian system, because that system depends on everyone's complicity in the lie.”
“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.”
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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
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“The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when he plays the role destiny has for him.”
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“Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.”
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart.”
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