Czechoslovakian - Writer | January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Karel Capek
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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Art must not serve might.
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I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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