Vaclav Havel

Famous quotes by Vaclav Havel:

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out"

"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."

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

"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 its absurdity..."

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

"Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole."

"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."

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought."

"Lying can never save us from another lie."

"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."

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The Verdict Against Greenpeace Is an Attack on Us All

Scheerpost 27 Mar 2025

The legendary human rights attorney Marty Garbus, a member of our team who has practiced law for more than six decades and who represented Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel, said it was the most unfair trial he had ever witnessed ... suppress dissent ... ... ....

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Silencing Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty is a gift to autocrats

The Hill 26 Mar 2025

Two years later, their sponsor, the Soviet Union, disintegrated ... People across the region learned of the latest developments, of brave demonstrators and heroes such as Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty ... Ronald H.

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The Day of the Jackal on Hampstead Heath — a shocking spy story

The Times/The Sunday Times 15 Mar 2025

Sentenced to ten years in prison, Jelinek would experience his own moment of disillusionment when, having been freed early in 1993, he was repudiated by Vaclav Havel’s post-Soviet government.

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A memoir on moral courage and hope

Manila Bulletin 15 Mar 2025

... “peacemaking is a task that never seems to end, and that therefore, one must find meaning in one’s work and one’s life,” quoting the much admired Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic.

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The Verdict Against Greenpeace Is an Attack on Us All

Silencing Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty is a gift to autocrats

The Day of the Jackal on Hampstead Heath — a shocking spy story

A memoir on moral courage and hope

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