Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Quotes

“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.”

“Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy.”

“Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.”

“Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of these sacrifices.”

“Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.”