„Pokud si nechceš pokazit život, musíš mít lidi rád a věřit jim.“
Originál
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life
What I Believe (1938)
Kontext: One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life, and it is therefore essential that they should not let one down. They often do. The moral of which is that I must, myself, be as reliable as possible, and this I try to be. But reliability is not a matter of contract — that is the main difference between the world of personal relationships and the world of business relationships. It is a matter for the heart, which signs no documents. In other words, reliability is impossible unless there is a natural warmth. Most men possess this warmth, though they often have bad luck and get chilled. Most of them, even when they are politicians, want to keep faith. And one can, at all events, show one's own little light here, one's own poor little trembling flame, with the knowledge that it is not the only light that is shining in the darkness, and not the only one which the darkness does not comprehend.
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Edward Morgan Forster 3
anglický romanopisec 1879–1970Podobné citáty
„Lidé rádi věří tomu, co si přejí.“
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
Zdroj: Rovnost 19. 7. 1991
„Nevěřím lidem, kteří se nemají rádi a říkají mi: "Mám tě rád."“
„Lidé věří rádi tomu, co si přejí, aby bylo pravda.“
„Proč lidé mají rádi staré stopy, proč jsou jim tak věrní.“
Zdroj: [Stanford, Peter, 1998, Papežka Jana, Svoboda, 1., 169, 80-902300-6-7]
