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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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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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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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Truth is always a delusion.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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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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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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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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