Vaclav Havel Freedom Quotations

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.

When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach,

I feel with leaving office I will enter a new realm of great freedom than I have had ... and I will speak more freely,

Just as many showed their solidarity with us when we were striving for freedom, so now we must show solidarity to those who are only striving for it in uneasy conditions,

It is as if many have again ignored the fact that an attack on the freedom of individuals threatens the freedom of all.