Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. Use this quote
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. Use this quote
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. Use this quote
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Use this quote
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Use this quote
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Use this quote
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Use this quote
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Use this quote
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
