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Václav Havel1936–2011

Václav Havel on power

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power.

Living in Truth (1986), “An Anatomy of Reticence”

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What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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