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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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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 worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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