"With the death of Vaclav Havel, the Czech republic has lost one of its great patriots, France has lost a friend, and …"

"Having encountered many setbacks, Havel lived with a spirit of hope, which he defined as “the ability to work for som…"

"A great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy has died … His outstanding voice of wisdom will be misse…"

"Havel … invokes … "higher law" when he claims that "human rights, human freedoms . . . and human dignity have their d…"

"Man is in fact nailed down — like Christ on the Cross — to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the torment …"

"We are finding out that what looked like a neglected house a year ago is in fact a ruin."

"It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly ha…"

"Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever …"

"There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side."

"Life cannot be destroyed for good, neither … can history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles o…"