Vaclav Havel

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and…

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often…

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that…

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political…

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire…

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in…

Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps…

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the…

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the…

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

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

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…

What’s certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba’s can’t continue to exist, so change…

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember…