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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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 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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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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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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