You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. – Karel Capek
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England. – Karel Capek
If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. – Karel Capek
Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough. – Karel Capek
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950