Václav Havel Quotes

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

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

For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.