Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

thumb|right|Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in 1918 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes anglicised to Thomas Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher, the first president of Czechoslovakia. Quotes [I]t redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery. The Spirit of Russia I 1919 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Paul Eden Paul Cedar 137 Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science. The Spirit of Russia I 1919 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Paul Eden Paul Cedar 208 A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign. The Spirit of Russia I 1919 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Paul Eden Paul Cedar 277–278 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. The Spirit of Russia II 1919 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Paul Eden Paul Cedar 15–16 Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy. The Religious Conditions in Czechoslovakia c1921 Thomas Garrigue Masaryk 7 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Religious_Conditions_in_Czechoslovakia War is not the greatest evil, though it is an evil. The open struggle of the battlefield is not the greatest evil; worse is that chronic condition of society which makes possible the violence of the stronger to the weaker; worse than war are insincerity and falsehood; worse is that egotism hidden under the mask of humanity and nobility in mind; worse is cowardice passing itself off as fortitude; worse is sophistry deceiving the sensible and wise. Death is not worse than a dishonourable life which destroys its own soul as well as that of its neighbour. Masaryk Tomáš Garrigue 2017-03-29 A Philosophy of Pacifism The New Europe 2 24 342–350 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Europe/Volume_2/A_Philosophy_of_Pacifism External links Author: Category:Authors from the Czech Republic Category:Politicians from the Czech Republic Category:Philosophers from the Czech Republic Category:Academics from the Czech Republic Category:Sociologists from the Czech Republic Category:Educators from the Czech Republic Category:Humanists‎ Category:Unitarians‎ Category:Heads of state Category:1850 births Category:1937 deaths