Quote by Vaclav Havel
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, be

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. – Vaclav Havel

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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. – Vaclav Havel

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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

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Apathy
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that hell spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. – David Broder

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The President is the peoples lobbyist. – Hubert Humphrey

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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

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