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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit 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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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