In 1989 – Czech writer, philosopher, and dissident Václav Havel was elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

“We still don’t know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions–if they are to be moral–is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.”