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

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

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

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

"He will be remembered as a hero to the people of the Czech Republic and to lovers of freedom around the world."

"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, …"

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

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the po…"

"If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual act…"

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