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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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 only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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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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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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