Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republicafter the Czech–Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 October 1936
CityPrague, Czech Republic
country responsibility order
Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.
country two numbers
The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
country calm oppression
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
country ideas understanding
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.
country war lying
My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.
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That is very dangerous, ... in an absolutely legal way and in accordance with the wording of the law, but against the spirit of the ... constitution.
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I can imagine this is something that will last quite a while,
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Mr. President, for the enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization there's no doubt in my mind that it was personal leadership that made this historic development possible.
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I feel with leaving office I will enter a new realm of great freedom than I have had ... and I will speak more freely,
economical intelligence-and-intellectuals sort
Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.
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It is the beginning of the worst moment. All of the flood barriers are at their maximum level.
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For 15 years the Government of Burma (Myanmar) has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse,