Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
Vaclav HavelRead
The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the erosion of moral values in society and the disconnect between thoughts and words.
Vaclav Havel laments the decline of moral integrity in society, suggesting that people often express feelings and concepts such as love and friendship in ways that do not align with their true beliefs. This separation leads to a degradation of the depth these values should hold, ultimately resulting in a morally contaminated environment where essential virtues are diminished.
In practice
During a motivational speech on integrity and ethics in the workplace.
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.
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.
If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
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