Vaclav Havel Quotes


You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it. - Vaclav Havel



Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. - Vaclav Havel



Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. - Vaclav Havel



When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach. - Vaclav Havel