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. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: truth misery daylight Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Vaclav Havel The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: politics power responsibility policy circumstances Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: politics power responsibility policy circumstances Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “misery” There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. —Alice Munro More about this quote Tags: love limits misery cleanliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper that this is the real thing. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: misery eagerness temper Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes. —Charan Singh More about this quote Tags: enemies suffering misery tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: happiness misery irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. —Lemony Snicket in The Blank Book More about this quote Tags: people sadness misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it. —Alice Munro More about this quote Tags: love limits misery cleanliness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can see from your utter misery, from your eagerness to misunderstand each other, and from your thoroughly bad temper that this is the real thing. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: misery eagerness temper Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even for our enemies in misery, there should be tears in our eyes. —Charan Singh More about this quote Tags: enemies suffering misery tears Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: happiness misery irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. —Lemony Snicket in The Blank Book More about this quote Tags: people sadness misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email