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

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

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

- Vaclav Havel

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

- 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…

- 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…

- Vaclav Havel

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

- Vaclav Havel

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

- Vaclav Havel