Zitate Karel Čapek

„Old Rossum thought only of his godless hocus-pocus and young Rossum of his billions. And that wasn't the dream of your R. U. R. shareholders either. They dreamed of the dividends. And on those dividends humanity will perish.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

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

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—  Karel Čapek, Pictures from the Insects' Life

Pictures from the Insects' Life (1922), as translated in 'And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects) : An Entomological Review in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue (1936) co-written with his brother Josef Čapek, p. 60; also known as The Insect Play

„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. If you could see how they licked my hands, and their puppies — oh, Primus, there's probably nothing more beautiful! You take them on your lap and cuddle them, and just sit there until sundown not thinking about anything and not worrying about anything. Then when you get up you feel as though you've done a hundred times more than a lot of work. Really, I'm not good for much of anything. Everyone says I'm not cut out for any kind of work. I don't know what I'm good for.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.“

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—  Karel Čapek, buch The Absolute at Large

The Absolute at Large (1921)

„Each factory will be making Robots of a diťferent color, a different nationality, a different tongue; that they'll all be different — as different from one another as fingerprints; that 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… Thunder, we'll make Black Robots and Swedish Robots and Italian Robots and Chinese Robots, and then let someone try to drive the notion of brotherhood into the noggin of their organization…“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„I wanted man to become a master! So he wouldn't have to live from hand to mouth! I didn't want to see another soul grow numb slaving over someone else's machines! I wanted there to be nothing, nothing, nothing left of that damned social mess! I abhorred degradation and suffering! I was fighting against poverty! I wanted a new generation of mankind! … I wanted to transform all of humanity into a world-wide aristocracy. Unrestricted, free, and supreme people. Something even greater than people.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„They learn to speak, write, and do arithmetic. They have a phenomenal memory. If one read them the Encyclopedia Britannica they could repeat everything back in order, but they never think up anything original. They'd make fine university professors.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.“

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—  Karel Čapek

Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

„The Continent is noisier, less disciplined, dirtier, more rabid, craftier, more passionate, more convivial, more amorous, hedonistic, vivacious, coarse, garrulous, unruly and somehow less perfect. Please, give me a ticket straight to the Continent.“

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—  Karel Čapek

Letters from England (1925)

„We made the Robots look too much alike. A hundred thousand identical faces all looking this way. A hundred thousand expressionless faces. It's a nightmare.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end … Art must not serve might.“

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—  Karel Čapek

Statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted Karel Čapek: Life and Work (2002) by Ivan Klima

„Dear Miss Glory, we've already had at least a hundred saviors and prophets here. Every boat brings another one. Missionaries, anarchists, the Salvation Army, everything imaginable. It would amaze you to know how many churches and lunatics there are in the world.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Thunder, there are so many beautiful things! The world was beautiful and we — we — Boys, boys, tell me, what did we ever take the time to enjoy?“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea — O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Mankind will endure. In twenty years the world will belong to man again; even if it's only to a couple of savages on the tiniest island … that'll be a start. And as long as there's some small beginning, that's fine. In a thousand years they'll have caught up to where we are now and then surpass even that … to accomplish what we only dreamed of.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Why are there stars when there are no people? O God, why don't you just extinguish them? — Cool my brow, ancient night! Divine and fair as you always were — O night, what purpose do you serve? There are no lovers, no dreams. O nursemaid, dead as a sleep without dreams, you no longer hallow anyone's prayers. O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

„Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with — no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.“

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—  Karel Čapek, R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

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