216 Quotes by Vaclav Havel

People, your Government has returned to you!

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

You may ask what kind of a republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic which serves the individual and which therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such it is impossible to solve any of our problems, human, economic, ecological, social, or political.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.