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Friedrich Durrenmatt Inspirational Quotes (47)

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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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There are thoughts we must not think
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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