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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

Vaclav Havel

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Vaclav Havel
Age: 75 †
Born: 1936
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: December 18
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Vaclav Havel
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Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence silence merely encourages them.
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People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
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By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.
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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.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.
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A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in systems cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
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To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
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If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.
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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.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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All human suffering concerns each human being.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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