Vaclav Havel Quotes

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

My doctrine is as I've described, which is confidence in our cause, clarity in our purpose, and resolve in our might.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

Even if you disagree w/me-I HAVE TO STAND,like you FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN.WITH ALL MY HEART AND MIND

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face. I did what I did because I believe it is the right thing to do, and I will continue to do that.

In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.