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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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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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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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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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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