Václav Havel

Václav Havel
former President of the Czech Republic
 

"When I became President I began, for understandable reasons, to travel all around the globe. According to the constitution the President represents the state abroad. I have traveled through fifty, perhaps eighty countries on every continent and in all of these countries I have met the new faces of today's civilization, and all the problems that I knew from literature and wise books unexpectedly opened to me as if in a new, multi-dimensional life time. I have said again and again  that it would be good if intelligent people, not only from the various ends of the earth, different continents, different cultures, from civilization's religious circles, but also from different disciplines of Human knowledge could come together somewhere in calm discussion..."

Biography
Office of Václav Havel