Stanislav Křeček

"This is an example of how the law only works when it is violated just a little. When the law is violated massively, it doesn't work. When I kill someone, it's murder. When hundreds of people are shot on the street, the law doesn't work anymore. And that's the case of the building code, if you have a thousand of buildings built illegally, you're hardly going to remove a thousand, the bulldozer's not going to come to take it all down. If you have just one illegal building, it can come and tear it down."

"Then somehow I thought I wouldn't be a scientist, so I wanted to be an artist, so I studied art school here in Prague at Vinohrady, on Hollar Square. I was also kind of into that, and I mainly did sculpture and drawing and painting. And at the same time I graduated from law school, and the art school came in handy because after law school I joined the court, the District Court for Prague 5, I was a judge. And after '68 I was thrown out because I wrote a lot of articles for Charles University, which was a kind of student magazine, and for Studentské listy and Lidové noviny. And the communists collected these articles and fired me on that basis. So the art school came in handy, I was a freelance artist. I made a living for a while, making posters for Čedok and things like that."