216 Quotes by Vaclav Havel

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

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

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

All human suffering concerns each human being

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.

Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?

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.