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Václav 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.
—Václav Havel

Posted on November 14, 2001 at 7:33 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them—isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
—Václav Havel

Posted on January 16, 2002 at 12:55 PM

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