Quotes by : Vaclav Havel

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness....

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.....

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the....

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as....

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

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense,....

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn....

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect,....