Vaclav Havel's Quote - Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and

Quote by Vaclav Havel

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. – Vaclav Havel

Other quotes by Vaclav Havel

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. – Vaclav Havel

Category:

Hope

Author

Vaclav Havel

Read Quote

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

Category:

Hope

Author

Vaclav Havel

Read Quote

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. – Vaclav Havel

Category:

Masses

Author

Vaclav Havel

Read Quote

Other Quotes from

good

Random Quotes

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people cant even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. – Barbara Kingsolver

Category:

Hope

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. – John Ruskin

Category:

Clothing

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policemans truncheon over the anarchists bomb. – Spiro T. Agnew

Category:

Politics

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. – Nora Ephron, Heartburn, 1983

Category:

Pregnancy