"If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President."
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Vaclav Havel quotes (page 9 of 9)
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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."
"I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself."
"What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually."
"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."
"Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state."
"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."