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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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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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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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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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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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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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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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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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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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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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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