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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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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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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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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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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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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 worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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There are thoughts we must not think
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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 rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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