“ Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. ”
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“ Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. ”
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“ This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard. ”
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“ Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ”
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“ The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. ”
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“ Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ”
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“ It is as if many have again ignored the fact that an attack on the freedom of individuals threatens the freedom of all. ”
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“ Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising. ”
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“ You have no idea how happy I am that you have won the Nobel Prize in literature. I think you absolutely deserve it. ”
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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. ”
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“ Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising. ”
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“ Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ”
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“ A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. ”
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“ You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them… ”
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“ The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions. ”
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“ When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach. ”
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“ You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them… ”
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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. ”
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“ The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. ”
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“ The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said. ”
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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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit… ”
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“ The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for… ”
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“ There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth, it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. ”
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“ Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ”
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