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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
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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 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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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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