What’s certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba’s can’t continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have – by disrupting that order – a way of surprising. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I’d say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
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. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. Vaclav Havel Read Quote
