T G Masaryk Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dictators always look good until the last minutes. — 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