Havel/history

Famous quotes containing the words havel and/or history:

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have—by disrupting that order—a way of surprising.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)