Vaclav Havel Quotes About Citizenship

Quotes about: Citizenship

• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Peace, Freedom

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Independent, Self

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

• 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.

  Vaclav Havel

  Trying, Citizens, Might

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Introduction, p. 16, 1990.

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