Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect. - Karel Čapek

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 and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. 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 … 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. If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge ... One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. 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.

Helena: And then I thought that...if they were like us they would understand us and they wouldn’t hate us so — if they were only a little bit human!”
Domin: Oh Helena! No one can hate more than man hates man! Transform stones into people and they’ll stone us! But go on!

A lidé poslouchají, aby nemusili mluvit, nebo mluví, aby nemusili poslouchat;