Vaclav Havel Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Interplay, Potentialities

• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

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  Tags in Suffers, Deceptive

• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

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  Tags in Misery, Broad

• There’s always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

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  Tags in Always, Suspect

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

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  Tags in Consistently, ridiculous

• 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.

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  Tags in Nations, Autonomous

• I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

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  Tags in Somewhat, Theatre

• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

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  Tags in Increase, Entropy

• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

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  Tags in Government

Vaclav Havel (29)

Birth:	5th October, 1936
Death:	18th December, 2011
Nationality:	Czech
Profession:	Essayist, Poet, Politician, Playwriter

About

Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Havel was the ninth and last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic. He wrote more than 20 plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally.

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