Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it. - Vaclav Havel
Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
- Vaclav Havel
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. - Vaclav Havel
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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. - Vaclav Havel
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.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. - Vaclav Havel
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. - Vaclav Havel
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indire… - Vaclav Havel
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indire…
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridic… - Vaclav Havel
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridic…
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. - Vaclav Havel
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. - Vaclav Havel
We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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