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Quote of the day: Vaclav Havel on goodwill

November 25, 2023

GOODWILL

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence. They want to be told about this publicly…Goodwill longs to be recognized and cultivated. For it to develop and have an impact it must hear that the world does not ridicule it…people want to hear that decency and courage make sense, that something must be risked in the struggle against dirty tricks. They want to know that they are not alone, forgotten, written off.

–Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations

Quote of the day: HOPE

November 16, 2011

HOPE

Hope, in this deep and profound sense, is not the same thing as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for success, but rather, an ability to work for something because it is good.

— Vaclav Havel