Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“[I]t redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery.”

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

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

“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.”