If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it mus… - Václav Havel

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

It has become clear that the legacy of the past decades we have to cope with is even worse than we anticipated or could anticipate in the joyful atmosphere of those first weeks of freedom. New problems are emerging day by day, and we can see how interconnected they are, how long it takes to solve them, and how difficult it is to establish priorities.

True enough, order prevails.... What prevails is order without life.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?