Logo
Quote by Vaclav Havel
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions b

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. – Vaclav Havel

Other quotes by Vaclav Havel

Whats certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cubas cant continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Change
Author
Vaclav Havel
Read Quote

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Age
Author
Vaclav Havel
Read Quote

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. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Peace
Author
Vaclav Havel
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Leadership
category

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. – Jesse Jackson

Category:
Leadership

Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better. – Bill Bradley

Category:
Leadership

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and Americas leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him. – John Podhoretz

Category:
Leadership

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Leadership

Random Quotes

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. – Vladimir Nabokov

Category:
Art

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. – William E. Borah

Category:
Government

At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment. – Maria de Villota

Category:
car

High expectations werent nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then – children werent fawned over from an early age as gifted and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself. – James Wolcott

Category:
Age