Karel Capek Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.
• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
• Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man…
• There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
• Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.
• 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…
• The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and…
• I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature…
• 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…
• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
• There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land,…
• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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