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A review by gloame
The Absolute at Large by Karel Čapek
3.0
This was a very obvious political and religious treatise, but I'm really glad I read it. It took some very serious topics and presented them in a lighter way, something more manageable than your run of the mill soap-boxing. The ideas in it were well-presented, though with humour, and there were a lot of places where I found myself highlighting quotes that stood out to me, for example:
Pg 103 (according to Kindle):
"We'll have no Japanese faith. If there's to be any faith, then it must be the Orthodox faith. And do you know why? First, because it is orthodox, and secondly, because or Czar so wills, and fourthly, because we, my friend, have the biggest army."
Which is pretty much how all wars start.
There were plenty of good quotes in here, but I'll end with one from, appropriately, the end:
Pg. 147 (according to Kindle):
"Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people."
So true. Yep. I liked this book. Give it a shot. It's short and sweet.
Pg 103 (according to Kindle):
"We'll have no Japanese faith. If there's to be any faith, then it must be the Orthodox faith. And do you know why? First, because it is orthodox, and secondly, because or Czar so wills, and fourthly, because we, my friend, have the biggest army."
Which is pretty much how all wars start.
There were plenty of good quotes in here, but I'll end with one from, appropriately, the end:
Pg. 147 (according to Kindle):
"Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people."
So true. Yep. I liked this book. Give it a shot. It's short and sweet.