List of Vaclav Havel Quotes

Ownership Is Not A Vice, Not Something To Be Ashamed Of, But Rather A Commitment, And An Instrument By Which The General Good Can Be Served.

We Are The First Atheistic And Global, All-embracing Civilization. You Cannot Tell Whether You Are Sitting At An Airport In Hong Kong Or In A Hotel In Alaska. Everything Is Instrumentalized, Subjected To A Short-term Purpose. It Is Quite Possible That In Such A Situation Any Sense Of A Deeper Meaning Gets Lost.

I Personally Think President [hosni] Mubarak, Who's Done A Lot For Egypt, Should Acknowledge That His Time Has Come And Step Down Right Away.

President Murabak Has Been A U.s. Ally For Decades. He Was A Guarantor Of Some Degree Of Peace In The Middle East And Has Kept A Good Relationship With The Western World.

I Have Preserved My Identity, Put Its Credibility To The Test And Defended My Dignity. What Good This Will Bring The World I Don't Know. But For Me It Is Good.

It Was Never The People Who Complained Of The Universality Of Human Rights, Nor Did The People Consider Human Rights As A Western Or Northern Imposition. It Was Often Their Leaders Who Did So.

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.

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.

I Cannot Imagine That I Could Strive For Something If I Did Not Carry Hope In Me.

If You Want To See Your Plays Performed The Way You Wrote Them, Become President.

There's A Dilemma Over How To Balance Concrete Economic Interests With Critical Opinions On The State Of Human Rights. It's The Human Rights That Suffer, And That's A Great Price To Pay.

The Award Is Destined For Scientists Who Do Not Fear To Touch On Some Of The Darkest Aspects Of Being Without Betraying What They Have Achieved. On The Contrary, They Head In This Direction.