Helena: And then I thought that...if they were like us they… - Karel Čapek

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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!

Karel Čapek

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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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Pen Names: K. Č. • B. Č. • Karel Plocek • Karel Vašek

Alternative Names: Karel Capek

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Cleverness is usually cruel, malicious and selfish; it seeks a weakness in its neighbor and exploits it for its own gain; it leads to success. [...:] Reason is frequently cruel to man, but it is true to its intentions; it seeks to profit everyone ...

Ја сам поштен човек и крао сам у животу само седам пута; и увек је то било цвеће.

Poslední slovo komunismu je vládnout, a nikoli zachraňovat; jeho velikým heslem je moc, a nikoli pomoc. Chudoba, hlad, nezaměstnanost nejsou mu nesnesitelnou bolestí a hanbou, nýbrž vítanou rezervou temných sil, kvasící hromadou zuřivosti a odporu.

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!”… - Karel Čapek

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