Václav Havel 🇨🇿

"When we realize this, hope returns to our hearts.”"

"Because we all got used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact, and thus actually maintained it.""

"Confidence is not pride.”"

"I assume that you did not propose me to this office so that I would lie to you too.''"

"Our country is not flourishing.'"

"We have spoiled the land, rivers and forests that our ancestors bequeathed to us.""

"We are all – although understandably each to a different degree – responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machine."

"We have become morally ill because we have become accustomed to saying something else and thinking something else.”"

"The worst thing is that we live in a corrupt moral environment.”"

"After all, freedom and democracy mean participation and therefore the shared responsibility of everyone.""

"The youth played a decisive role in this peaceful revolution.”"

"The Communist Party should no longer have – and no longer has – its leading role enshrined in the constitution.”"

"There are many parallels and many differences between 1968 and 1989.”"

"I believe that it should also be a country with a pluralistic economic system, that is, with the parallel existence of different types of ownership.""

"I believe that Czechoslovakia should be a democratic country with a pluralist political system.""

"And above all, that it should be a country that will provide workers with far greater social security than the current totalitarian system.""

"This is the face of resistance to violence, resistance to mafia, intrigue, injustice, resistance to all filth and impurity.”"

"I have always put public interests above my own interests.""

"I believe it should be a peaceful country.”"

"Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred!'"