Jaroslav Kalfař Quotes

The organization of religion is self-defeating, a trap for sin.

Death would be so much easier to dance with if it weren’t surrounded by the clutter of civilization.

Do you feel free?"
"I feel like I've lost too much."
"Freedom can feel that way.

His conviction is a compulsion not subject to self-preservation.

The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It’s why the Americans are falling behind—they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they’d rather sit and pray that the world won’t make them adapt too much.

In this future, we were free of systems. Other humans went on to become symbols, sacrificed their lives to serve. Other humans handled the torture, the coups, the healing. We simply sowed, harvested, and drank a bit before dinner. No one tried to take what was ours. We had too little. We were invisible, and in this slower life we were our own gods.