Briton and the Power of The Powerless

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This paper discusses Briton's quotation in relation to a program of resistance which was designed by Vaclav Havel, the past president of Czechoslovakia. According to this paper, Havel maintained that social justice could be achieved though a plan of ethical action and meaningful social engagement. He belongs to a culture where artists and intellectuals are deeply committed to both democratic government and the common good. The concept of the power of the powerless is based in the conviction that the center of power is also the center of truth.

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"The power of those who choose to oppose the system - The Power of the Powerless -lies not in directly confronting the system but in denying it in principle...making a choice to live in the truth and refusing to live in the lie" (Briton 102). Briton's quotation is in relation to a program of resistance which was designed by Vaclav Havel, the past president of Czechoslovakia. Havel maintained that social justice could be achieved though a plan of ethical action and meaningful social engagement. He belongs to a culture where artists and intellectuals are deeply committed to both democratic government and the common good."

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