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«I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
divisions, inhabit, mightier, military, shaking, structure
«Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, descend, get around, jump, lowest, modern man, obviously, spiral, spiraling, spirals
«Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
Basic Law, entropy, highly, Law of the, structured
«People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
as far as possible, label, only too, Parties, party system, political parties, political power, political system, political systems, post, several, totalitarian
«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.»
«The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
divided, divided by, dividing line, interaction, interactions, powerless, sharp, worlds
«The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arrange, dictates, lights, medium, open to, perceive, radiate, radiated, radiates, radiating, role, The Author, transcend, unfathomable
«Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
alienate, alienated, compelled, degenerate, degeneration, involuntary, supports, support system, the system
«A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, denies, hesitate, internal, in its own right, other states, public opinion, reflected, suppression, suppressions
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