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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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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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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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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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 only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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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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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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