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."

"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 …"

"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."

"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."

"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."