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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change 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 content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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