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„Hoffnung ist nicht die Überzeugung dass etwas gut ausgeht, sondern die Gewissheit dass etwas Sinn hat, egal wie es ausgeht.“

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Theresa Enke in einer Traueranzeige für ihren verstorbenen Mann, Robert Enke

„Durch Misstrauen gegenüber den Worten kann entschieden weniger verdorben werden als durch übertriebenes Vertrauen in sie.“

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Rede von 1989 zur Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels, boersenverein.de http://www.boersenverein.de/sixcms/media.php/806/1989_havel.pdf

„Der Prozess der gesamteuropäischen Integration wird offenbar ein sehr kompliziertes, simultanes Spiel auf vielen Schachbrettern zugleich sein.“

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Rede im Mai 1991 in Aachen anlässlich seiner Auszeichnung mit dem Karlspreis, karlspreis.de http://www.karlspreis.de/de/preistraeger/1991/rede_von_vaclav_havel.html

„Das Heil dieser menschlichen Welt liegt nirgendwo anders als im menschlichen Herzen, in der menschlichen Reflexionskraft, in der menschlichen Sanftmut und in der menschlichen Verantwortung.“

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Václav Havel: Zitate auf Englisch

“The previous regime — armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology — reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“My dear fellow citizens,
For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us.
I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

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Václav Havel buch Disturbing the Peace

Quelle: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2 : Writing for the Stage

“The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.”

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Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute" http://www.artforamnesty.org/aoc/biog_havel.html

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”

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Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize

“You may ask what kind of republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such people it is impossible to solve any of our problems — human, economic, ecological, social, or political.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”

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Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)

“One has to greatly admire the patience with which our society has come to terms with all the challenges of these dramatic times, the extent of which few of us could have anticipated in those heady, revolutionary days.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“I know we have still done very little, and that the main tasks still lie ahead of us. I would say that we have just completed a year of preparation in which the conditions for a new environment have been created.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin.”

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Statement about the conditions in Czechoslovakia and other previously Soviet Bloc countries. Daily Telegraph London (3 January 1991)

“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.”

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Address to the Prague World Congress of International PEN Club (7 November 1994) http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/wipcnews/peninternationaldeeplysaddenedbydeathofvclavhavelaconstantchampionforfreedomofexpression/

“Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the era of rational knowledge provides to the basic questions of human Being, the more deeply it would seem that people, behind its back as it were, cling to the ancient certainties of their tribe. Because of this, individual cultures, increasingly lumped together by contemporary civilization, are realizing with new urgency their own inner autonomy and the inner differences of others.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“In late 1989, the profound transformation that took place in this country brought me here to Prague Castle. It all happened so suddenly that I did not even have time to properly consider whether or not I was up to the task, and I was sincerely of the opinion that I would just take it on for a few months until the first free elections.
Clearly, things turned out quite differently: I have now been here for more than thirteen years, if we discount the short break in the latter half of 1992.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”

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Letter to the downthrown Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček (August 1969), as translated in Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 115

“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.”

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Václav Havel buch The Power of the Powerless

Quelle: Living in Truth (1986), The Power of the Powerless

“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.”

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Interview for the French newspaper Le Monde (29 April 1999); this statement is considered the source of the term w:Humanitarian bombing", frequently used about the Kosovo War.