Štefan Jorík

“We are people living on this Earth; we live here altogether and are obliged to mutually care for better prosperity, for better life of others. This is what we should devote ourselves to, what we should prefer to personal interests, to greediness and property. We should mind others. We even see it today, when the top world authorities are unable to communicate with each other and make mutual agreements. They rather pass messages to one another via media instead of sitting down and negotiating. Everything in this world can be solved, when people want to. But what if such top authorities are displaying a bad example and don’t know how to meet or talk. It’s the same in the family, too. If we want it to function, its members have to learn how to discuss things – the same could be said about any village, city, republic, or the whole world.”

“When the war was over and an American officer came here, to Myjava, he called all the families and their representatives who provided hiding to American pilots. He asked them, what kind of reward they wish for saving lives of these American soldiers. In unison they proclaimed, they wished for nothing and took nothing, indeed. Everyone considered it as a patriotic duty, and moreover, they also helped to save people’s lives. The human to human relationship is what we still keep missing, even today.”