Vaclav HavelThinkers

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.

Language is the purest instrument of culture.

The Power of the powerless is small acts of dishonesty and compromise that contributed to the hold of communism.