Frases de Václav Havel (135 citas, página 4)

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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

“The previous regime — armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology — reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“My dear fellow citizens,
For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million 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.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.”

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Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute" http://www.artforamnesty.org/aoc/biog_havel.html

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”

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Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize

“You may ask what kind of republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such people it is impossible to solve any of our problems — human, economic, ecological, social, or political.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”

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Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)

“One has to greatly admire the patience with which our society has come to terms with all the challenges of these dramatic times, the extent of which few of us could have anticipated in those heady, revolutionary days.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“I know we have still done very little, and that the main tasks still lie ahead of us. I would say that we have just completed a year of preparation in which the conditions for a new environment have been created.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin.”

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Statement about the conditions in Czechoslovakia and other previously Soviet Bloc countries. Daily Telegraph London (3 January 1991)

“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.”

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Address to the Prague World Congress of International PEN Club (7 November 1994) http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/wipcnews/peninternationaldeeplysaddenedbydeathofvclavhavelaconstantchampionforfreedomofexpression/

“Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the era of rational knowledge provides to the basic questions of human Being, the more deeply it would seem that people, behind its back as it were, cling to the ancient certainties of their tribe. Because of this, individual cultures, increasingly lumped together by contemporary civilization, are realizing with new urgency their own inner autonomy and the inner differences of others.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“In late 1989, the profound transformation that took place in this country brought me here to Prague Castle. It all happened so suddenly that I did not even have time to properly consider whether or not I was up to the task, and I was sincerely of the opinion that I would just take it on for a few months until the first free elections.
Clearly, things turned out quite differently: I have now been here for more than thirteen years, if we discount the short break in the latter half of 1992.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“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.”

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Letter to the downthrown Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček (August 1969), as translated in Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 115

“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

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

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

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Interview for the French newspaper Le Monde (29 April 1999); this statement is considered the source of the term w:Humanitarian bombing", frequently used about the Kosovo War.

“The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and … often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment

“It has become clear that the legacy of the past decades we have to cope with is even worse than we anticipated or could anticipate in the joyful atmosphere of those first weeks of freedom. New problems are emerging day by day, and we can see how interconnected they are, how long it takes to solve them, and how difficult it is to establish priorities.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Fuente: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment, p. 83