Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
Vaclav HavelRead
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Interpretation
A shift in human awareness is essential for creating a better society.
Vaclav Havel emphasizes that meaningful societal change requires a transformation in human consciousness. Without this inner revolution, efforts to build a more humane and just society are likely to be superficial and ineffective, as true progress begins within individual minds and hearts.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social reform, one might say, 'Without a global revolution in human consciousness, we cannot expect to build a more humane society.'
Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.
In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
Talk of mysteries! β Think of our life in nature, β daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, β rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state at all. Why not have anarchy?
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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