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.
drama order theatre
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
responsibility order civilization
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.
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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,
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For 15 years the Government of Burma has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse, ... In fact, the situation in Burma is much more severe compared to other countries in which the Security Council has chosen to act in recent years.
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
hope regardless turn turns
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.