Rising from the rubble

"I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying and exhausting itself- while something else, still indistinct, were rising from the rubble."

Président Vaclav Havel, discours de Philadelphie, 4 juillet 1994