Each factory will be making Robots of a diťferent color, a different nationality, a different tongue; that they'll all be different — as different fr… - Karel Čapek

It means that each factory will be making Robots of a different color, a different nationality, a different tongue; they'll all be different — -as different from one another as fingerprints; they'll no longer be able to conspire with one another; and we — -we people will help to foster their prejudices and cultivate their mutual lack of understanding, you see? So that any given Robot, to the day of its death, right to the grave, will forever hate a Robot bearing the trademark of another factory.

S každou vírou je to taková divná a křehoučká věc; jistě lepší a osvícenější je věřit moudře než věřit slepě; ale troufá si někdo říci, že je osvícenější nevěřit vůbec nežli věřit? První možný náboženský pokrok je tolerance, totiž úcta a pozornost ke každé náboženské víře; bezkonfesijní škola je tu proto, aby vychovávala děti v toleranci, ale ne v nevíře; a netolerance bezkonfesijních je stejně neosvícená jako netolerance kteréhokoliv konfesijního popa.

They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed to do; quite likely the world will collapse and disappear under water; but at least that will happen for political and economic reasons we can all understand, at least it will happen with the help of science, technology and public opinion, with human ingenuity of all sorts! Not some cosmic catastrophe but just the same old reasons to do with the struggle for power and money and so on. There’s nothing we can do about that.

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