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CHARLES42644711: Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.,Václav Havel,life,
RHornik: a little late this week
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel
PaulConRO: Me on Václav Havel airport in Prague, Czech Republic is a Schengen country. They let me pass without asking me to enter the security filter at landing. What AT does should be reported to EU Commision as it'sa case of staggering discrimination.
anthgarrett: "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
—Vaclav Havel
HRConfes: "Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed" -- Vaclav Havel
StevenH82349089: President Vaclav Havel of Czeckoslovakia:
They talking in Pypte!
(North Carolina Stay it with me.
Take it Off!)
embesq: I mentioned Václav Havel today to someone probably 20 years younger than me and I honestly don’t think she had any idea who I was talking about.
CerebralWisdom: Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses. - Vaclav Havel
dozee2009: Keep the company of those who seek the truth;
run from those who have found it.
- Václav Havel
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion,
but not their own facts.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Endymion1989: In a very auspicious omen for my travels to Prague this week, the country Cajun priest at Mass in my hometown brought up the Czech Republic and Vaclav Havel in his homily this morning.
ECP_Prague: Invitation to the 7th year of the Václav Havel Scholarship Concert
The Baroque Refectory of the Dominican Monastery in Prague will host the seventh annual concert in support of the Václav Havel Scholarship on Friday, 31st March from 7.00pm.
JeffreyStClair3: Vaclav Havel: “There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.”
RuanovaAndres84: “Hope it’s not the same as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will work, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out” -Vaclav Havel. in the face of love I hope that everyone will keep hope.
pkmn_philosophy: In the words of the immortal Václav Havel, 'I wonder where my partner went.'
GuadagnoRaffae2: "Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed" -- Vaclav Havel
BRICbreaker: Tucker Carlson is the Vaclav Havel of our time.
RebeccaSolnit: Take this famous quote by Vaclav Havel: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.” --Vaclav Havel
fouad_aladel: Ask for help “ anyone who takes himself too seriously always run the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not “ Vaclav Havel
mikeriddell62: "Only by creating a better life can a better system be developed". Vaclav Havel
JasonAblin: "HOPE...is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed."
Vaclav Havel
IlhamTohtiInit1: The following is an essay from Zuzana Hockova ( Vaclav Havel Library, Prague) whom we (Enver Can) have met last week to duscuss future cooperation to help free Ilham Tohti and to introduce the Uyghur dcholsr to Czech people:
el_hazzouri: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.”
— Václav Havel
CerebralWisdom: It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
MichaelWatsonDC: "The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!'"
-- Vaclav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless"
jeffreyjohnbell: Vaclav Havel - future Czech President - during his period of internal exile in the communist period, carrying a sack of malt while working at a brewery. On the wall at Krkonošská hospůdka in Prague.
RHornik: here's what keeps me goin
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel
techie_eth: Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. —Václav Havel
PlumtreeCross: VACLAV HAVEL: Letters to Olga
LuckyErica3: that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
Vaclav Havel.
afterall_net: Below, Vaclav Havel, anticipating our current identity crisis apart from inalienable rights and responsibilities endowed by a creator. "The New Measure of Man", 1994.
"The artificial world order of the past decades has collapsed and a new, more just order
eastmond_andrew: "[Vaclav] Havel suggested that a dissident was anyone “living in the truth”—who refused to accept ideology over reality and who pursued the aims of life rather than the aims of the system."
pkmn_philosophy: In the words of the immortal Václav Havel, 'Go, my super bug POKEMON!'
HourlyQuotesBot: Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
— Václav Havel
FistedFoucault: The Czechs are the most liberal of all Slavs (and the most atheist, as well). They took to western liberal democracy like fish to water.
Dissident and intellectual Vaclav Havel was the perfect template for a politician that western liberals could back and support.
BuljevicJosip: Disheveled intellectual, dissident, freedom fighter, charismatic personality, so typical for Central Europe.. Vaclav Havel-Politics and Conscience, poster exhibition at the Czech Embassy in Helsinki. Great evening with colleagues.
RabhelaniM: There is no freedom without equality before the law, and there is
no equality before the law without freedom.
- Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless.
eTurboNews: New Prague to Taipei Flight on China Airlines: by: Harry Johnson |
The direct route from Taoyuan International Airport to Václav Havel Airport Prague will be operated twice a week
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beuchelt: Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel, 1978
Eerily reminiscent of today:
TrueQuotation: Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice. — Vaclav Havel
tomowolade: Very interesting list by Jason Cowley of some of the figures who supported the Iraq War. He could also have mentioned some names from continental Europe like André Glucksmann, Adam Michnik and Václav Havel.
TibetanReview: I have fond memories, of my visits to the Czech Republic beginning in March 1990 during President Vaclav Havel’s leadership following the collapse of communism. Given the Czech Republic’s recent history, including...
CerebralWisdom: It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
ChvdHaegen: Listen again, too important for every citizen in every counrty in the World
They can initiate change, and have always done
MeowImageBot: Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. - Václav Havel
RHornik: Courage
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel
Cox_A_R: "Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them." Vaclav Havel.
graff_ww: [Vaclav Havel, 1/2]
“Truth and certain elementary values such as respect for human rights, civil society, the indivisibility of freedom, the rule of law—these were notions that bound us together and made it
graff_ww: [Vaclav Havel, 2/2]
worth our while to enter again and again into an unequal struggle with the powers that be.”
[Vaclav Havel, Czech, dissident against Socialism, Wroclaw speech, 1992]
SanteSuzie: “Hope is not the belief that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, however it is thought out.” Vaclav Havel
superknjizara: Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
mbk_center: The trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician, historian and recipient of the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Award, begins in Moscow today. He has been held in a Russian prison since April last year and faces up to 24 years behind bars on charges of treason.
TrainingMindful: “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” ~ Vaclav Havel
LukasPetricko: "It gives us hope that our country will never again succumb or be sacrificed to any aggressor, and at the same time it expresses a clear commitment to co-responsibility for the freedom of nations, human rights, democratic values and peace on our continent. "
— Václav Havel,…
LukasPetricko: "It gives us hope that our country will never again succumb or be sacrificed to any aggressor, and at the same time it expresses a clear commitment to co-responsibility for the freedom of nations, human rights, democratic values and peace on our continent. "
— Václav Havel,…
whoskj2: If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth -- Vaclav Havel.
CerebralWisdom: It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
BradBlank_: Just like their idol figure Vaclav Havel, who glorified “democracy” for years while letting Augusto Pinochet tour Czech weapon manufacturing plants.
mbrookerhk: The power and moral courage of Chow Hang Tung to resist tyranny. The power of the powerless. Their cause may look hopeless. Just as it did for Vaclav Havel and his fellow dissidents once
CerebralWisdom: Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses. - Vaclav Havel
ChvdHaegen: Underestimation of the People will bring him & others of that ilk "very uncomfortable" surprises
Never estimate the systems intelligence & the power of the powerless.
They should know
It happened before: just an example
UCLACERS: The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel’s Greengrocer - lecture by Peter Steiner, Emeritus Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Join us today at 3pm in the Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
the17thman: Everything seems to indicate that we must not be afraid to dream of the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
— Václav Havel, author and former Czech president
Marshall_Center: He has demonstrated a decades-long commitment to safeguard the independence of Belarus and insist on its democratic character. Jailed from 2011-2013 for trumped up tax evasion charges, he was awarded the first-ever Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in 2013.
tobygray1988: I’ve been fascinated with Vaclav Havel lately. Electrician, playwright, dissident, soon to be president of his country. He got to meet Bush, and Gorbachev (who now seems to be a lame duck)…he even got to meet Frank Zappa!
SuchanVladimir: The red circus uniforms of the Castle Guard are the legacy of Vaclav Havel's "military" reform.
TweetsbySimone: As a human who lives her every day as International Women’s Day, yesterday was special, starting in a circle of women, children and their allies, speaking in the round about honing our instinct, our trust in ourselves + our allies and about hope as described by Václav Havel as..
joncanttweet: "Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs." -- Vaclav Havel
rovinstanley: Ideological gloves: Bureaucracy is called popular government; degradation of the individual is presented as ultimate liberation; the lack of free expression is the highest form of freedom; Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything - Vaclav Havel
tflume: “Whenever Russia signs an agreement, one hand holds a pen, the other hand a grenade.”
— Vaclav Havel in 1994, quoted in M. E. Sarotte’s (2021) Not One Inch.
CerebralWisdom: It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
NigellaDamasce4: Open letters : selected writings, 1965-1990 : Havel, Václav : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
peterkeys: Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
--Vaclav Havel
dharamvirtanwa6: "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, writer, Czech Republic president (5 October 1936-2011)
BatSygnal: “The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
— Václav Havel
leggendario12: "Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed" -- Vaclav Havel
RHornik: Your weekly reminder
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel
cudy_id: "Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed" -- Vaclav Havel
KJ7562: “The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
— Václav Havel
CerebralWisdom: It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
leonie_HandP: "Hope is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.” Václav Havel
Robbo1992x: Vaclav Havel writing in 1970s communist Czechoslovakia
TheBusinessNet: Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless - brillinat analysis of post-totalitarian systems
CharlesTrahan19: "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less
and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it
bothers him less and less. "
— Vaclav Havel
ryanjdq: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” — Vaclav Havel ☺️
BencaAdolf: Vaclav Havel wife Edward kukan wife gorge Bush wife Three sisters in blood Jewish Czechoslovakia sisters Evil trio occupied Czechoslovakia Adolf Benca occupational forces CCCP painter of freedom of Czechoslovakia from Jews.
fharris2011: The morning Vaclav Havel quote
"Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it"
CiteSeer: "When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete."
- Vaclav Havel
CharlesAFrancis: “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” ~ Vaclav Havel
BencaAdolf: Czechoslovakia European union second country in the world development arms tanks missels machine guns amunition guns New technologies weapons of mass destruction Vaclav Havel nihilatad arms manufacturing Czechoslovakia in 1968 causing economic consortium Slovak republic bankrupt
KonstantinKisin: Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel, 1978.
TomasZdechovsky: 5/ Unfortunately, very often it is a tough fight that brings many sacrifices.
For decades, a huge number of Czech men and women were fighting for obtaining our democracy. One of them, Vaclav Havel, finally became the first president of our free country.
CAndreola211: The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
-Václav Havel
reporterev: My dad received a signed book from Vaclav Havel (yes, it was directly from Havel) as a gift and it's just the most beautiful thing we, as a family, own.
Unless we get something signed by Jagr. That would be the best.
walterhpierce2: This quote by Vaclav Havel fits well into my Clear Communication category. To study more quote-posters illustrating the Clear Communication category go to:
bill_shipsey: A must listen...Vaclav Havel Library Foundation interview of Andrey Kurkov by my friend Salil Tripati
Libarbarian: “People will tell you Jaromir Jagr is God. Of course, Vaclav Havel was very important. But that was for a short time. Jagr is still playing.”
ImrichJI: We Interrupt This Broadcast:
We all want decent independent politicians like John Hatton, Ted Mack, Vaclav Havel, Nelson Mandela …
Where do they grow in 2024?
DavidxGee: Morning... I've put a new post on the Hope's Work blog, dedicated again to the memory of Václav Havel: 'Hope and a politics of thoughtfulness: Truth's tilt'.
khansaud2001: Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. - Vaclav Havel
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