Vaclav Havel Quotes:
Ocupation: Former President of Czechoslovakia
Life: October 5, 1936 - December 18, 2011
Birthday: October 5
Death: December 18
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.
source: Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.105, Routledge
topic: Civilization, People, Democracy, Parliamentary, Parliamentary Democracy
