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Václav Havel (5 October1936 – 18 December2011) was a Czech writer and dramatist famous for his work in the Theatre of theAbsurd, who became a politician and served as the last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic.

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• Even a purelymoral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
  • Letter to the downthrown Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček (August 1969), as translated in Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 115

• Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither … can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is t
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“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.”
― Vaclav Havel

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“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
― Vaclav Havel

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“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

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“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Vaclav Havel

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“I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexi

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Václav Havel (5 Oct 1936 - 18 Dec 2011) Czech playwright, activist and political leader who became president of Czechoslovakia in Dec 1989-1992.




Science Quotes by Václav Havel (2 quotes)




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.


— Václav Havel


In 'Letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák', Václav Havel: Or Living in Truth (1986), Pt. 1, 23.


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We must draw our standards from the natural world. … We must honor with the humility of the wise the bounds of that