The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people’s identity; it becomes ruler, defence lawyer, judge, and the law. Vaclav Havel
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
There is always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel
I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. Vaclav Havel
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. Vaclav Havel