A Few Words From...Vaclav Havel

"We introduced a new model of behavior:  don't get involved in diffuse general ideological polemics with the center, to whom numerous concrete causes are always being sacrificed; fight "only" for those concrete causes, and be prepared to fight for them unswervingly, to the end.  In other word's don't get mixed up in backroom wheeling and dealing, but play an open game.  I think in this sense we taught our antidogmatic colleagues a rather important lesson; their hangover became more profound and ultimately led to a strange recantation of their original decision, which came too late to change anything.  But they had come to understand something important.  They realized that many of their former methods were hopelessly out of date, that a new and fresher wind was blowing, that there were people - and there would obviously be more and more of them - who would not be stopped in their tracks by the argument that a concrete evil was necessary in the name of an abstract good."

- Disturbing The Peace