Vaclav Havel Quotes

Vaclav Havel — Czechoslovakian Leader born on October 05, 1936,

Václav Havel was a Czech writer, philosopher,dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech–Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs... (wikipedia)

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.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.