Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation, calculation, intrigue, secret deals, and pragmatic manoeuvring, but that it can even be the art of the impossible, namely, the art of improving ourselves and the world.


speech, Prague, 1 January 1990

Václav Havel Quotes

Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation,...

Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation,...

Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation,...

Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, especially if this means the art of speculation,...