Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Vaclav Havel

Quote by Vaclav Havel

“Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?”

Quote by Vaclav Havel

Create image

Author

Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel, born on October 5, 1936, was the former president of Czechoslovakia. He was a playwright, politician, and a leading figure in the Velvet Revolution. Known for his unwavering commitment to freedom, democracy, and human rights, Havel's works and actions had a profound impact on European politics in the post-Cold War era. more

You May Also Like

“When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.”

IfsKnowsMenWellsHeartDoeLyingAbilityNeededTasteIllContrarySensibilityModestCan NotRight PlaceGood TastePredetermined
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.”

WorldFeelsWritingHumansDealsResponsibilityAcceptingPrinciplesPositionBearsHorrorEssentialsPaidAversionSpecialization
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

BelieveHumansStatesCharacterI BelieveNationsInterestUnitedPrinciplesRightsAirMaterialsElementsHuman RightsHumanitarianPrioritiesBombsStakesSovereigntyUnited NationsInterventionMandatesNatoFederationKosovo
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.”

MenShouldMadeImportantLosesEconomicConsequenceSightImportant ThingsStructureWorkersIncludingSuperiorsSubordinatesPersonal RelationshipsCo Worker
Author:Vaclav Havel
Create image

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements. Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”

HeartSoulSpiritPassionCreativeMovementSourceEternalIntellectualDestructionBlindArroganceWretchedUnfathomableCircumspectionCreative PassionIntellectual Arrogance
Author:Mikhail Bakunin
Create image