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Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.
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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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Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.
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Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Disturbing the Peace

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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.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, overtime, gain in political significance.
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Václav Havel (1936-2011) was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, human rights activist, and statesman. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Havel became a prominent figure in the post-war theater scene with his absurdist plays that criticized totalitarianism. He was a key leader in the 1989 "Velvet Revolution," which peacefully overthrew the communist government. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and, subsequently, as the first president of the Czech Republic. His literary work includes plays such as "The Memorandum" and "The Audience," and his essays, such as "The Power of the Powerless," are influential in political theory and philosophy. He passed away in Hrádeček, Czech Republic.