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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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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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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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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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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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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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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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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