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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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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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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 individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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