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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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Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
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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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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 only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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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 make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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