Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Disturbing the Peace, p. 181, 1990
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Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, dissident, and politician, best known for his role as a leading voice in the Velvet Revolution, which peacefully ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia. He served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and then became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. Havel was also a prominent advocate for human rights and democracy, gaining international recognition for his writings and speeches on political and ethical issues.
1936–2011·lived 75 years
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.Disturbing the Peace, p. 181, 1990
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.The Power of the Powerless, 1978
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.Disturbing the Peace, Ch. 5, 1986
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