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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure 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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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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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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 freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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