Havel/history

Famous quotes containing the words havel and/or history:

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)