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Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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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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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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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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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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