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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
Friedrich Dürenmatt
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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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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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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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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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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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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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