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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

“The previous regime — armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology — reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it attacked both their very substance and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people, skillfully working in their own country, to the nuts and bolts of some monstrously huge, noisy and stinking machine, whose real meaning was not clear to anyone.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“My dear fellow citizens,
For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us.
I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.”

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Václav Havel

New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.”

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Václav Havel

Quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute" http://www.artforamnesty.org/aoc/biog_havel.html

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”

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Speech of October 1989, accepting a peace prize

“You may ask what kind of republic I dream of. Let me reply: I dream of a republic independent, free, and democratic, of a republic economically prosperous and yet socially just; in short, of a humane republic that serves the individual and that therefore holds the hope that the individual will serve it in turn. Of a republic of well-rounded people, because without such people it is impossible to solve any of our problems — human, economic, ecological, social, or political.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)

“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”

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Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)

“One has to greatly admire the patience with which our society has come to terms with all the challenges of these dramatic times, the extent of which few of us could have anticipated in those heady, revolutionary days.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“I know we have still done very little, and that the main tasks still lie ahead of us. I would say that we have just completed a year of preparation in which the conditions for a new environment have been created.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin.”

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Statement about the conditions in Czechoslovakia and other previously Soviet Bloc countries. Daily Telegraph London (3 January 1991)

“Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.”

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Address to the Prague World Congress of International PEN Club (7 November 1994) http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/wipcnews/peninternationaldeeplysaddenedbydeathofvclavhavelaconstantchampionforfreedomofexpression/

“Our civilization has essentially globalized only the surfaces of our lives. But our inner self continues to have a life of its own. And the fewer answers the era of rational knowledge provides to the basic questions of human Being, the more deeply it would seem that people, behind its back as it were, cling to the ancient certainties of their tribe. Because of this, individual cultures, increasingly lumped together by contemporary civilization, are realizing with new urgency their own inner autonomy and the inner differences of others.”

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Václav Havel

The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)

“In late 1989, the profound transformation that took place in this country brought me here to Prague Castle. It all happened so suddenly that I did not even have time to properly consider whether or not I was up to the task, and I was sincerely of the opinion that I would just take it on for a few months until the first free elections.
Clearly, things turned out quite differently: I have now been here for more than thirteen years, if we discount the short break in the latter half of 1992.”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”

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Letter to the downthrown Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubček (August 1969), as translated in Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 115

“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.”

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Václav Havel libro The Power of the Powerless

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

“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.”

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Interview for the French newspaper Le Monde (29 April 1999); this statement is considered the source of the term w:Humanitarian bombing", frequently used about the Kosovo War.

“The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and … often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment

“It has become clear that the legacy of the past decades we have to cope with is even worse than we anticipated or could anticipate in the joyful atmosphere of those first weeks of freedom. New problems are emerging day by day, and we can see how interconnected they are, how long it takes to solve them, and how difficult it is to establish priorities.”

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New Year's Address to the Nation (1991)

“We introduced a new model of behavior: don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end. In other words, don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment, p. 83

“The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.”

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

“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."”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 1 : Growing Up "Outside", p. 12

“It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media.”

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The Onassis Prize For Man and Mankind (1993)

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“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.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 3 : Facing the Establishment

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

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

“I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media.”

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Václav Havel

The Onassis Prize For Man and Mankind (1993)

“My dear friends, I bid you farewell as your President. I remain with you as your fellow citizen!”

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Farewell Address (2003)

“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”

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Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 113

“Every concession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.”

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Václav Havel libro Disturbing the Peace

Origine: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 5 : The Politics of Hope, p. 110

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