Vaclav Havel Quotes about Country

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I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

Vaclav Havel

Country, Thinking, Able

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If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

Vaclav Havel

Country, Chains That Bind, Links

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Vaclav Havel

Country, Calm, Oppression

Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

Vaclav Havel

Country, War, Lying

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

Vaclav Havel

Country, Ideas, Understanding

New Year's Address to the Nation, January 1, 1990.

The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

Vaclav Havel

Country, Two, Numbers

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.

Vaclav Havel

Country, Responsibility, Order