Vaclav Havel Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Wise, Confusing, Language

• It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather, through the fact of your existence in the world, you create the idea or manifest it - create it, as it were, from the "material of the world," articulate it in the "language of the world."

  Vaclav Havel

  Thinking, Practice, Ideas

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala". Book by Vaclav Havel translated by Paul Wilson (Chapter 1: Growing Up "Outside", p. 12), 1990.

• The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.

  Vaclav Havel

  Meaningful, Thinking, Rights

  Vaclav Havel's Liberty Medal acceptance speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.aps.org. October 4, 1994.

• English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

  Vaclav Havel

  Years, Liberty, Language

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