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Václav Havel [1]​ fue un político, escritor y dramaturgo checo. Fue el último presidente de Checoslovaquia y el primer presidente de la República Checa. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. octubre 1936 – 18. diciembre 2011  •  Otros nombres वैक्लेव हैवेल
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Frases célebres de Václav Havel

“No es difícil estar detrás de los éxitos de cada uno. Sin embargo, aceptar la responsabilidad de los fracasos de uno … ¡eso es endemoniadamente duro! Pero sólo desde allí el camino lleva … a una nueva visión radicalmente distinta de la misteriosa gravedad de la propia existencia como una empresa incierta y su significado trascendental.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Citado en "Václav Havel: Heredero de un legado espiritual" de Richard L. Stanger, en Christian Century (11 de abril de 1990)

“Si deseas ver tus obras representadas de la forma en que las escribiste, conviértete en presidente.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Discurso al Instituto de Artes Contemporáneas de Londres, citado en The Independent, Londres (24 de marzo de 1990)

“La salvación de este mundo humano no se encuentra en ninguna otra parte más que en el corazón del hombre, en el poder humano para reflexionar, con humildad humana y responsabilidad humanas.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: International Herald Tribune (21 de febrero de 1990)

“La verdad es que vivo en un sistema en el que las palabras son capaces de sacudir toda la estructura del gobierno, donde las palabras pueden ser más poderosas que diez divisiones militares.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Discurso de octubre de 1989, aceptando el premio de la paz, citado en The Independent, Londres (9 de diciembre de 1989)

“No puede haber ninguna duda que desconfiar de las palabras es menos nocivo que la confianza injustificada en ellas. Además, desconfiar de las palabras, y acusarlas de los horrores que podrían hibernar discretamente dentro de ellas - ¿no es esto, después de todo, la verdadera vocación del intelectual?”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Discurso de octubre de 1989, aceptando el premio de la paz, citado en The Independent, Londres (9 de diciembre de 1989)

“La tragedia del hombre moderno no es que sabe cada vez menos sobre el sentido de su propia vida, sino que se preocupa cada vez menos por ello.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Cartas a Olga (1988), p. 237

“Al igual que el constante aumento de la entropía es la ley fundamental del universo, igualmente la ley fundamental de la vida es ser cada vez más estructurada y luchar contra la entropía.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Carta a Husak

“La vida no puede ser destruida para siempre, ni … la historia puede ser llevada totalmente a un punto muerto. Un arroyo secreto discurre por debajo de la pesada capa de la inercia y los pseudo-acontecimientos, minándolos lenta y discretamente. Puede ser un proceso largo, pero un día tiene que ocurrir: la capa ya no podrá contenerlo y comenzará a resquebrajarse. Ahora es el momento cuando algo nuevo comienza visiblemente a suceder, algo verdaderamente nuevo y único … algo verdaderamente histórico, en el sentido en que la historia EXIGE nuevamente ser escuchada.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Carta abierta al Dr. Gustáv Husak, presidente comunista (8 de abril de 1975).

“Incluso un acto puramente moral que no tenga ninguna esperanza de un efecto político inmediato y visible puede gradual e indirectamente, con el tiempo, ir ganando en importancia política.”

Václav Havel

Fuente: Carta al presidente del hundido Partido Comunista Checoslovaco, Alexander Dubček (Agosto de 1969), y compilado en Disturbing the Peace (1986), Cap. 5 : The Politics of Hope, pág. 115

Václav Havel: Frases en inglés

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5

“Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.”

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Václav Havel

Vaclav Havel’s human rights legacy an inspiration http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/vaclav-havel-s-human-rights-legacy-inspiration-2011-12-21 Amnesty International (21 December 2011)]

“I also appeal to those who have already done most of their work for society. I hope that the changes you awaited or worked for for so long will bring joy and satisfaction into your lives. We need your experience, your wisdom and your love.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“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.”

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Václav Havel

Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2 : Writing for the Stage

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5

“If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 11

“When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Introduction, p. xvi
Disturbing the Peace (1986)

“I think the Anthropic Cosmological Principle brings to us an idea perhaps as old as humanity itself: that we are not at all just an accidental anomaly, the microscopic caprice of a tiny particle whirling in the endless depth of the universe. Instead, we are mysteriously connected to the entire universe, we are mirrored in it, just as the entire evolution of the universe is mirrored in us.”

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Václav Havel

The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.”

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Václav Havel

Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; quoted in The Independent, London (22 March 1990)

“A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 17

“Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.”

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Václav Havel

As quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990)

“It is clearly necessary to invent organizational structures appropriate to the present multicultural age. But such efforts are doomed to failure if they do not grow out of something deeper, out of generally held values.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a desire to contribute to the happiness of the community rather than of a need to cheat or rape the community.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

Living in Truth (1986), The Power of the Powerless

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 4 : Public Enemy

“Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 111

“There used to be a time when this country's president could have delivered the same New Year's Address he had given a year before, and nobody would have noticed.
Fortunately, that time has passed.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Full freedom of speech and expression prevails in our country, and freedom of assembly and association is guaranteed.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Without the constantly living and articulated experience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 114

“People, your government has returned to you!”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“This is related to the crisis, or to the transformation, of science as the basis of the modern conception of the world.
The dizzying development of this science, with its unconditional faith in objective reality and its complete dependency on general and rationally knowable laws, led to the birth of modern technological civilization. It is the first civilization in the history of the human race that spans the entire globe and firmly binds together all human societies, submitting them to a common global destiny.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“I think that it is my duty today to remind you as well of the good things that have happened, accomplishments that a year ago we could scarcely have imagined.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

Living in Truth (1986), The Power of the Powerless

“Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit…. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”

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Václav Havel

Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

“If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.”

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Václav Havel

Letter to Husák

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