Vaclav Havel Quotes

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Everyone has a role, no matter where you are on the globe.

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

We will succeed, because we are fully committed, because, wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility: Make our planet great again.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life, when it respects the people who live in it, when it respects the environment, when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate. This shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs.

We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

Well, part of the thing is, like, what's the difference between censorship and social responsibility? I sometimes find that the whole censorship argument is used as a way for people to avoid the fact that they're like.

Cleaning up the country cannot be the sole responsibility of sweepers. Do citizens have no role in this? We have to change this mindset.

If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.

Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.