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Letter "V" » Vaclav Havel Quotes
«Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
assumes, disrupt, disrupted, disrupting, surprising
«A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
genuinely, human action, sighted, temporalities, temporality
«It is as if many have again ignored the fact that an attack on the freedom of individuals threatens the freedom of all.»
«For 15 years the Government of Burma has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse, ... In fact, the situation in Burma is much more severe compared to other countries in which the Security Council has chosen to act in recent years.»
«For 15 years the Government of Burma (Myanmar) has refused to implement recommendations made by the UN and the situation is getting worse,»
«He tries to explain why man behaves most improbably, strangely, at variance with his nature, how it is possible for instance that a calm, rather neutral petty bourgeois is all of a sudden capable of commanding a concentration camp, burning to death or gassing thousands of people, and afterwards returning to his clerk's life as if nothing happened,»
«I felt the need to stir things up, ... To confront others for a change and force them to deal with a situation that I myself had created.»
«When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach,»
«Just as many showed their solidarity with us when we were striving for freedom, so now we must show solidarity to those who are only striving for it in uneasy conditions,»
«Poles are able to reflect their history, they respect it. Who knows if anybody will remember when we commemorate our 25 years [since the 1989 Velvet Revolution].»
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