V sergejevském klášteře jsem byl hostem u otce igumena - pozoroval jsem tu nevzdělanost a pověrečnost pravoslaví; a tím chtěli slavjanofilové zachrán… - Karel Čapek

Celkem jsem si odnesl z Ruska totéž, co Havlíček: lásku k ruskému lidu a nechuť k oficiální politice a k panující inteligenci.

Celkem jsem si odnesl z Ruska totéţ, co Havlíček: lásku k ruskému lidu a nechuť
k oficiální politice a k panující inteligenci.

but within the next ten years Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves.

... Be there people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and this is the point I wish particularly to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and this is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive words against words no less positive, instead of the struggle being, as we are so often told it is, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.

„Представете си само каква тишина щеше да настане, ако хората говореха само това, което знаят.