Vaclav Havel Quotes

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

Vaclav Havel

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• It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Good
  • Different
  • Important

• All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Power
  • Famous
  • Gun

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Government
  • Conflict

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Funny
  • Wish
  • Government

• Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Power
  • Death
  • Words

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Moving

• I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

  

  Ofra Haza
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Government

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Government
  • Impossible

• A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Government
  • Independence

• Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • World
  • Power
  • Today

• Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Me
  • Government
  • Purpose

• I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Up
  • Think
  • Path

• I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Want

• The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• The point is that if you accept that there is only one energy in all things, then on an energy level there is no giving or receiving - just energy moving around within itself. It's only the ego that sees a separateness in things. So the ego will say, "The Cadillac went from Harry to Sally." But on an infinite level, it is neither Harry's nor Sally's, it is a part of all things. It is. Where it finds itself and whose name is on the owner's manual is irrelevant.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Energy
  • Accepting
  • Levels

• Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Power
  • Government
  • Ultimately