Masaryk Quotes & Sayings

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life. — Carson Ellis

Late news was suicide of w:Jan Masaryk - In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, [-] and saying in a loud voice -'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now. — Malcolm Muggeridge

One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied. — Leo Tolstoy

I fall in love in the way you fall asleep, slowly, but then all at once — John Green

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. — Jan Masaryk

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor. — Horace

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever. — Peter Senge

We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate
it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern
France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening,
of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon. — Stephen L. Carter

Dictators always look good until the last minutes. — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. — Mary Quant

We have persistant objects, they're called files. — Ken Thompson

What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance. — Jan Masaryk

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have. — Juan Manuel, Prince Of Villena

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific. — Karl Jaspers

If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls.
Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938. — Jan Masaryk

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk