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A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass civilization, and who has no roots in the order of being, no sense of responsibility for anything higher than his own personal survival, is a demoralized person. The system depends on this demoralization, deepens it, is in fact a projection of it into society.

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Anne Frank's legacy is still very much alive and it can address us fully, especially at a time when the map of the world is changing and when dark passions are awakening within people.

Václav Havel

Václav Havel

Václav Havel

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Born: October 5, 1936

Died: December 18, 2011 (aged 75)

Bio: Václav Havel was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech Slovak split.

Known for:

The Garden Party (1993)
The Power of the Powerless (1979)
To the Castle and back (2007)
The Memorandum (1965)
Letters to Olga (1985)

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