Vaclav Havel Quotes


I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.


Citations

Havel, Václav. Summer Meditations. Translated by Paul Wilson, Knopf, 1992, p. 5.

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Vaclav Havel
Vaclav Havel
  • Born: October 5, 1936
  • Died: December 18, 2011
  • Nationality: Czech
  • Profession: Leader

Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.