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Quote by Vaclav Havel
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit

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

Other quotes by Vaclav Havel

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

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Peace
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel

Category:
Experience
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Vaclav Havel
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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

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good
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Vaclav Havel
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Masses
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Masses

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

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Masses

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Masses

Minorities are individual or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified. – Jos

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Masses

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One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. – Thor Heyerdahl

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