I am not interested in why man commits evil; I want to know why he does good. - Václav Havel

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning — in other words, of absurdity — the more energetically meaning is sought.

Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.

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.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.