Havel/history

Famous quotes containing the words havel and/or history:

“[The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)