Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And th… - Karel Čapek

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Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

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About Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.

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I blame science! I blame technology! Domin! Myself! All of us! We, we are at fault! For the sake of our megalomania, for the sake of somebody's profits, for the sake of progress, I don't know, for the sake of some tremendous something we have murdered humanity! So now you can crash under the weight of all your greatness! No Genghis Khan has ever erected such an enormous tomb from human bones!

Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each other; all the same species and think of all the excuses for war they've used! It hasn't had to be about space to live in, it's been about power, prestige, influence, fame, resources and I don't know what else!

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Chtěl jste bojovat proti válce; zatím však bojujete proti zákonu. Porušit zákon je mravně dovoleno jen ve jménu vyššího a ušlechtilejšího zákona. Který je vyšší zákon, o nějž se zasazujete? Ano: nezabíjet. Je však ještě vyšší zákon: položit život “za to, co větší je než já”. Vojáku Vladimíre, to větší je národ. Neodsuzuji vás proto, že nechcete zabíjet – kdo by mohl odsuzovat vůli tak ušlechtilou? –, ale proto, že nechcete položit život za něco, co je větší než vy. Jste vinen, že jste nepomyslil na tuto hodnotu. Celé pasívní hrdinství vaší oběti se nevyrovná aktivnímu hrdinství obyčejného vojáka, který přijímá riziko své povinnosti. Není doba pro zbytečné mučednictví; prosté věci, jako poslušnost, jsou dnes vážnější lidskou obětí.

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