Iris

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in and mature in always influences your thinking. This in itself requires no self-criticism. What is more important is how you have allowed yourself to be influenced, whether by good or by evil.”
― Václav Havel

“Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.”
― Václav Havel

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.”
― Václav Havel