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Friedrich Durrenmatt Inspirational Quotes (47)

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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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