You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when…

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

Vaclav Havel

2007

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Political progress Political courage Progress Courage Politics

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Autobiography and memoir

Time

2007

Person

Vaclav Havel

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Citation

Havel, Václav. To the Castle and Back. Vintage, 2007.

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