Czechoslovakian - Writer | January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Capek
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
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My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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