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Václav Havel è stato uno scrittore, drammaturgo e politico ceco.

È stato l'ultimo presidente della Cecoslovacchia ed il primo presidente della Repubblica Ceca.

✵ 5. Ottobre 1936 – 18. Dicembre 2011   •   Altri nomi वैक्लेव हैवेल
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“La salvezza di questo mondo umano non risiede in nessun altro luogo che nel cuore umano, nella capacità umano di riflettere, nella mansuetudine umana e nella responsabilità umana.”

Václav Havel

“La magistratura è il potere dei senza potere.”

Václav Havel

Origine: Citato in Toghe rotte, a cura di Bruno Tinti, Chiarelettere, Milano, 2007. ISBN 9788861900301

“È sempre un bene, se l'America si áncora un po' all'Europa.”

Václav Havel

da Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 27 aprile 2007

“Quando il patriota ceco non ha abbastanza coraggio (e senza coraggio il vero spirito critico è chiaramente impensabile) di guardare in faccia il presente, crudele ma aperto, di riconoscerne tutti gli aspetti problematici e di trarne senza riguardo le dovute conseguenze, pur se rivolte contro il proprio gruppo, si volge verso un passato migliore ma ormai chiuso, un passato nel quale si era tutti uniti.”

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Origine: Da Le illusioni di Kundera, Lettera internazionale: rivista trimestrale europea. II trimestre, 2008, p. 42.

“Proprio come il costante aumento di entropia è la legge fondamentale dell'universo, così è la legge fondamentale della vita di essere sempre più altamente strutturata e di lottare contro l'entropia. Entropia è una grandezza termodinamica che misura il grado di disordine presente in un sistema, incluso l'universo. E in natura l'entropia è spontaneamente sempre in crescita, cioè la tendenza naturale delle cose è verso il caos anziché verso l’ordine. E anche nella vita è così. Ecco alcuni esempi di quello che voglio dire. Immaginiamo che ci sia un campo d'erba. Non si trasformerà spontaneamente in un bel prato inglese ben curato; piuttosto, l'erba continuando a crescere, trasformerà il campo in un groviglio spaventoso di erbacce. Nel campo aumenta il caos, piuttosto che ordine. Se questo campo è il mio giardino, e se voglio un prato inglese ben curato invece di una giungla, dovrò con il rasaerba far retrocedere con fatica l'entropia (in gergo, falciare il prato), contrastando con il mio lavoro il naturale evolvere della situazione che naturalmente tende verso il caos, il disordine. Devo dare altri esempi? Quando le foglie in autunno cadono dagli alberi, naturalmente cadono in mucchi ordinati sul terreno? Ovviamente no; cadono caoticamente in tutto il prato, e se voglio mucchi ordinati, dovrò fare personalmente pulizia. La polvere in casa mia si accumula naturalmente nel cestino? Sfortunatamente no; finisce dappertutto, dove capita, e se voglio una casa pulita e ordinata, dovrò far retrocedere l'entropia (in gergo, spolverare). Il governo è un altro esempio; i governi non sono naturalmente stabili. La maggior parte dei principali paesi del mondo hanno avuto un grande cambiamento di governo negli ultimi cento anni. "Elenco delle rivoluzioni e ribellioni" di Wikipedia registra 215 tali eventi dal 1900 - più del numero di paesi in tutto il mondo! Un governo stabile nel mondo è una cosa molto rara e insolita, e richiede una incredibile quantità di equilibrio per garantire la stabilità (in gergo, democrazia). Il movimento naturale dei governi, come ogni cosa, è verso il caos. L’uso del motore dell’automobile migliora nel tempo? No, si usura e poi si rompe. La sua evoluzione non è verso l'ordine, si verso il caos. Se si trascura una strada, si riparano da sole le buche che si formano? Il tuo corpo, invecchiando, si ripara da sé, o si acciacca sempre di più e, infine, si arrende? Quando passa un uragano, si lascia dietro edifici luccicanti nuovi di zecca o, nella sua scia solo macerie e distruzione? In realtà, c'è qualche forza nell'universo che crea naturalmente ordine? Non penso proprio: l'uomo con il suo duro lavoro può solamente ritardare di poco l'inevitabile caos totale; alla fine l'entropia vincerà sempre e comunque. Vi pare che potremo battere l'universo e le sue intenzioni? (tratta da Lettera aperta a Gustáv Husák, 8 aprile 1975).”

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Václav Havel: Frasi in inglese

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5

“Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.”

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Vaclav Havel’s human rights legacy an inspiration http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/vaclav-havel-s-human-rights-legacy-inspiration-2011-12-21 Amnesty International (21 December 2011)]

“I also appeal to those who have already done most of their work for society. I hope that the changes you awaited or worked for for so long will bring joy and satisfaction into your lives. We need your experience, your wisdom and your love.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“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.”

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Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5

“If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 11

“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.”

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Introduction, p. xvi
Disturbing the Peace (1986)

“I think the Anthropic Cosmological Principle brings to us an idea perhaps as old as humanity itself: that we are not at all just an accidental anomaly, the microscopic caprice of a tiny particle whirling in the endless depth of the universe. Instead, we are mysteriously connected to the entire universe, we are mirrored in it, just as the entire evolution of the universe is mirrored in us.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.”

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Václav Havel

Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; quoted in The Independent, London (22 March 1990)

“A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 17

“Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.”

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As quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990)

“It is clearly necessary to invent organizational structures appropriate to the present multicultural age. But such efforts are doomed to failure if they do not grow out of something deeper, out of generally held values.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“Let us teach ourselves and others that politics should be an expression of a desire to contribute to the happiness of the community rather than of a need to cheat or rape the community.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

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

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 4 : Public Enemy

“Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 111

“There used to be a time when this country's president could have delivered the same New Year's Address he had given a year before, and nobody would have noticed.
Fortunately, that time has passed.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Full freedom of speech and expression prevails in our country, and freedom of assembly and association is guaranteed.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Without the constantly living and articulated experience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary, how can one experience one's own absurdity if one is not constantly seeking meaning?”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 114

“People, your government has returned to you!”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“This is related to the crisis, or to the transformation, of science as the basis of the modern conception of the world.
The dizzying development of this science, with its unconditional faith in objective reality and its complete dependency on general and rationally knowable laws, led to the birth of modern technological civilization. It is the first civilization in the history of the human race that spans the entire globe and firmly binds together all human societies, submitting them to a common global destiny.”

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The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“I think that it is my duty today to remind you as well of the good things that have happened, accomplishments that a year ago we could scarcely have imagined.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

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

“Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit…. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”

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Living in Truth (1986), An Anatomy of Reticence

“If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.”

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Václav Havel

Letter to Husák

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