The point, he insisted, was not to argue with those in power. It was not even primarily to tell the truth, though in a regime based on lies this was important. The only thing that made sense in the circumstances of the time, he wrote, was to ‘live in truth.’ All else was compromise—’The very act of forming a political grouping forces one to start playing a power game, instead of giving truth priority.’Tony Judt on Vaclav Havel — from Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945
