Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk quotes

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech philosopher, sociologist, and statesman who became the first President of Czechoslovakia. His leadership played a crucial role in the country's independence and democratic foundations. He is remembered as the "father of the nation" and a key advocate for human rights and democracy. Here are 9 of his quotes:

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.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.

Tomáš 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.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

So, I am free. Fine.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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.

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

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

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk