Words of thanks to Klaus's people for appreciating our work
September 3, 2010
On the 1st September 2010, Mr. Petr Hájek, Václav Klaus's vice-chancellor, at a demonstration of the D.O.S.T. Initiative, in presence of Jana Bobošíková and other comparably significant and popular personalities of our public life, touched on our work:
"For twenty years the experts of the popular presidential library of Václav Havel have been organizing non-stop Courses of Progress: crowds of journalists, feminists, gays, green alarmists and other comrades, headed by the local branch of the Fifth Column of the European Union, strive day and night to whiten your hearts and brains into an ideal progressive purity."
We would like to express our heart-felt thanks for this appreciation. Pronounced by his mouth, formulated by his vocabulary and addressed to people of his mentality, it means a very strong incentive for our further work.
(You can download Petr Hájek's full lecture here.)
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A Word about Words – samizdat essay
„Besides, to be wary of words and of the horrors that might slumber inconspicuously within them – isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual? I recall that André Glucksmann once spoke in Prague about the need for intellectuals to emulate Cassandra: to listen carefully to the words of the powerful, to be watchful of them, to forewarn them of their danger, and to proclaim their dire implications or the evil they might invoke.“
Václav Havel:
A Word about Words – samizdat essay
July 25, 1989
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