“ This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard. 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 ext… Vaclav Havel
“ The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, c… Vaclav Havel
“ The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrow… Vaclav Havel
“ For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. Vaclav Havel
“ 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