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Karel Capek Quotes

Karel Capek quotes about people

Czechoslovakian Writer January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938

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History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone. All our ideas, loves, plans, heroic ideals, all these lofty things are worthless. Karel Capek
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. Karel Capek
Karel Capek quote: "People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing..."
People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them. Karel Capek
I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs. Karel Capek
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. Karel Capek
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. Karel Capek
Karel Capek quote: "If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get..."
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. Karel Capek
Karel Capek quote: "One never knows whether people have principles on principle or..."
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. Karel Capek
There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance. Karel Capek

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