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The savages don't have atom bombs.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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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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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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