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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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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change 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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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 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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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