Václav Havel

"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."

"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."

"Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life."

"We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those …"

"The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers …"

"It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead... to a radically new insight into the myste…"

"Modern anthropocentrism inevitably meant that He who allegedly endowed man with his inalienable rights began to disappear from the world: He was so far beyond the grasp of modern science that he was g…"

"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."