Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

A radical is he who has no sense...fights without reason...I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.