Karel Capek Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  Karel Capek

  Funny, Dog, People

• There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

  Karel Capek

  People, Needs, Literature

  "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Stress, Yellow, People

  Karel Capek's supplement to his book "R.U.R" in "The Saturday Review", 1923.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  People, Perfect, Missing

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.28, Penguin

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Soul, Robots, Literature

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

  Karel Capek

  Victory, Literature, Ants

  "'And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects) : An Entomological Review in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue " by Karel Capek, Josef Capek, (p. 60), 1936.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Government, Office, Literature

  "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.

• Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

  Karel Capek

  Triumph, Literature, Might

  "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Dog, Garden, Two

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.94, Penguin

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  Karel Capek

  People, Principles, Literature

  "Letters from England". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Fighting, Literature, Cognition

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

• 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.

  Karel Capek

  Fighting, Creating, Literature

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, Literature, England

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