Here you will find a digitized image of Hejdánek's original filing cabinet. Its total volume is many thousand tickets. We publish them in parts as we handle them. At the moment we have worked out what prof. Hejdánek himself developed electronically. However, much work remains on paper cards. In addition to Hejdánek's extracts from reading, the filing cabinet also includes his own thought work from recent years, which cannot be found elsewhere.
Isaiah Berlin
(1988)
You must realise that if you use violent methods the result will almost invariably be totally different from that you intend. Why? Because too much is unknown – not because you are wrong. The abuses are abuses, the tyranny is a tyranny, it should be stopped, it can be stopped; but if the measures are too violent – that´s to say, if you believe in the possibility of a total or even three-quarters transformation of society by organised means, if need be by violence – you will find that you´ve heaved up forces of whose existence you were probably not avare, which will in some way frustrate your designs and produce something maybe better that there was before, but not that you wanted.
(Interview with Michael Ignatieff, 29 November 1989.)
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date of origin: květen 2006