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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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 difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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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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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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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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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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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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