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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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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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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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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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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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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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