Vaclav Havel

Politician, Playwright

Vaclav Havel was a Czech playwright, dissident, and the first President of the Czech Republic, known for his advocacy of democracy and human rights.

Born
October 5, 1936
Died
December 18, 2011
Quotes
167
Rank
#202

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"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President."

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"Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged."

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"What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually."

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"The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction."

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"Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state."

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"President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world."

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