"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
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Power
More From Vaclav Havel
- "Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
- "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."
- "Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."
More In Power
- "Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature."― Rainn Wilson
- "If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."― Stendhal
- "The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."― John Stuart Mill