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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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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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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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