R.U.R.

La historia no se hace con grandes sueños sino con las insignificantes necesidades de todas las gentes honradas, moderadamente maliciosas y que se buscan a sí mismas.

It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there are in the world.

But old Rossum meant it literally. He wanted to become a sort of scientific substitute for God. He was a fearful materialist, and that's why he did it all. His sole purpose was nothing more nor less than to prove that God was no longer necessary.

Dr Gall: Hoši, je to zločin staré Evropy, že naučila Roboty válčit! Nemohli už dát, u čerta, pokoj s tou svou politikou? To byl zločin, udělat z živé práce vojáky! Alquist: Zločin byl vyrábět Roboty! Domin: Cože? Alquist: Zločin byl vyrábět Roboty! Domin: Ne. Alquiste, ani dnes toho nelituju. Alquist: Ani dnes? Domin: Ani dnes, v poslední den civilizace. Byla to veliká věc.

but within the next ten years Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves.

nothing is stranger to man than his own image

Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect.