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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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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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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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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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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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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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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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