Quotes by Havel, Vaclav

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the so >>

You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take >>

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

Quotations about Words

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God. >>

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of >>

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could >>

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav