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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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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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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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