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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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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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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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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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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