Myšlenky – Klaus Václav (2021)

This Czech-language book brings together strong and compelling thoughts and words from Václav Klaus, whose name has been associated not only with major historical events shaping the country’s post-communist development but also with a significant influence on public debate. His deep grounding in the social sciences and his unique experience at the top of domestic and European politics have given him a firm ideological foundation and a consistent compass through unprecedented situations following the fall of communism, as well as through today’s information cacophony of the social-media world. The breadth of his outlook and consistency of his opinions are especially notable: attentive readers soon discover that his views remain stable and require little correction even years later. The quotations in this book, published on the occasion of Václav Klaus’s 80th birthday, are selected and arranged by Tomáš Břicháček from Klaus’s books, articles, speeches, and interviews of the past three decades. These ideas have influenced many people and, during the happier years of the country’s post-communist history, helped shape life in the country.