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)

“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)