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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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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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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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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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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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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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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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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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