Indeed -
Václav Havel is saying something simple and very true about human nature. He thought that inside every person, there is a quiet, good heart. It is a natural instinct to be fair, to help, and to cooperate. But life often teaches us to ignore that instinct. We get tired, we become cynical, or we are told that being good is for fools. That good heart doesn't disappear. It just goes to sleep. It becomes dormant, waiting for someone to remind it that it is okay to wake up.
That is exactly what Havel is doing with this quote. He is giving that quiet heart permission to beat loudly again. He is telling people, plainly, that being decent is not naive. Helping your neighbor, telling the truth, and playing by the fair rules are not silly ideas. They are the most sensible and practical things we can do. They are the basic glue that holds a family, a town, or a country together. Without that glue of simple goodwill, everything else falls apart. He is not dreaming of a perfect world. He is giving us the instruction manual for building a real one.
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